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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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Unicode standard

Abugida

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A writing system in which consonants are indicated by the base letters that have an inherent vowel, and in which other vowels are indicated by additional distinguishing marks of some kind modifying ...

Diacritic

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(1) A mark applied or attached to a symbol to create a new symbol that represents a modified or new value. (2) A mark applied to a symbol irrespective of whether it changes the value of that symbol. ...

Algorithm

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A term used in a broad sense in the Unicode Standard, to mean the logical description of a process used to achieve a specified result. This does not require the actual procedure described in the ...

Alphabet

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A writing system in which both consonants and vowels are indicated. The term "alphabet" is derived from the first two letters of the Greek script: alpha, beta.

Acrophonic

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Denoting letters or numbers by the first letter of their name. For example, the Greek acrophonic numerals are variant forms of such initial letters.

Alphabetic property

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Informative property of the primary units of alphabets and/or syllabaries.

Character name

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A unique string used to identify each abstract character encoded in the standard. * The character names in the Unicode Standard match those of the English edition of ISO/IEC 10646. * Character names ...

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