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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
Umlaut
Computer; Unicode standard
Two horizontal dots over a letter, as in naïve. The diaeresis is not distinguished from the umlaut in the Unicode character encoding.
Half-consonant form
Computer; Unicode standard
In the Devanagari script and certain other scripts of the Brahmi family of Indic scripts, a dead consonant may be depicted in the so-called half-form. This form is composed of the distinctive part of ...
Grapheme cluster
Computer; Unicode standard
The text between grapheme cluster boundaries as specified by Unicode Standard Annex #29, "Unicode Text Segmentation." A grapheme cluster represents a horizontally segmentable unit of text, ...
Guillemet
Computer; Unicode standard
Punctuation marks resembling small less-than and greater-than signs, used as quotation marks in French and other languages.
Grapheme extender
Computer; Unicode standard
A character with the property Grapheme_Extend. * Grapheme extender characters consist of all nonspacing marks, zero width joiner, zero width non-joiner, U+FF9E, U+FF9F, and a small number of spacing ...
Graphical application
Computer; Unicode standard
A nonspacing mark is said to apply to its associated grapheme base. * The associated grapheme base is the grapheme base in the grapheme cluster that a nonspacing mark is part of. * A nonspacing mark ...
Graphic character
Computer; Unicode standard
A character with the General Category of Letter (L), Combining Mark (M), Number (N), Punctuation (P), Symbol (S), or Space Separator (Zs). * Graphic characters specifically exclude the line and ...
