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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
Halfwidth
Computer; Unicode standard
Characters of East Asian character sets whose glyph image occupies half of the character display cell. In legacy character sets, halfwidth characters are normally encoded in a single byte. The ...
Halant
Computer; Unicode standard
A preferred Hindi synonym for a virama. It literally means killer, referring to its function of killing the inherent vowel of a consonant letter.
Han unification
Computer; Unicode standard
The process of identifying Han characters that are in common among the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
Obsolete
Computer; Unicode standard
Applies to a character that is no longer in current use, but that has been used historically. Whether a character is obsolete depends on context: For example, the Cyrillic letter big yus is obsolete ...
Numeric property
Computer; Unicode standard
A numeric property is a property whose value is a number that can take on any integer or real value. * An example is the Numeric_Value property. There is no implied limit to the number of possible ...
Out-of-band
Computer; Unicode standard
An out-of-band channel conveys additional information about text in such a way that the textual content, as encoded, is completely untouched and unmodified. This is typically done by separate data ...
Overridable property
Computer; Unicode standard
A normative property whose values may be overridden by conformant higher-level protocols. * For example, the Canonical_Decomposition property is not overridable. The Uppercase property can be ...
