Unicode standard

Unicode standard

The Unicode standard is a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages and technical disciplines of the modern world.

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Braille

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A writing system using a series of raised dots to be read with the fingers by people who are blind or whose eyesight is not sufficient for reading printed material.

Backus-Naur form (BNF)

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A formal meta-syntax for describing context-free syntaxes. (For details, see Appendix A, Notational Conventions.)

Supplementary code point

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A Unicode code point between U+0000 and U+FFFF.

BMP code point

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A Unicode code point between U+0000 and U+FFFF.

Conformance

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Adherence to a specified set of criteria for use of a standard.

Consonant conjunct

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A sequence of two or more adjacent consonantal letterforms, consisting of a sequence of one or more dead consonants followed by a normal, live consonant letter. A consonant conjunct may be ligated ...

Composition exclusion

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A Canonical Decomposable Character (D69) which has the property value Composition_Exclusion=True. * The list of Composition Exclusions is provided in CompositionExclusions.txt in the Unicode ...