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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
Character name alias
Computer; Unicode standard
An additional unique string identifier, other than the character name, associated with an encoded character in the standard. * Character name aliases are assigned when there is a serious clerical ...
Character identity
Computer; Unicode standard
The identity of a character is established by its character name and representative glyph in the code charts. * A character may have a broader range of use than the most literal interpretation of its ...
Encoding scheme
Computer; Unicode standard
A character encoding form plus byte serialization. There are seven character encoding schemes in Unicode: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32, UTF-32BE, and UTF-32LE.
Character encoding scheme (CES)
Computer; Unicode standard
A character encoding form plus byte serialization. There are seven character encoding schemes in Unicode: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32, UTF-32BE, and UTF-32LE.
Character encoding form (CEF)
Computer; Unicode standard
Mapping from a character set definition to the actual code units used to represent the data.
Encoding form
Computer; Unicode standard
Mapping from a character set definition to the actual code units used to represent the data.
Character properties
Computer; Unicode standard
A set of property names and property values associated with individual characters.
