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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Overridable

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A characteristic of a Unicode character property that may be changed by a higher-level protocol to create desired implementation effects.

Numeric value property

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A property of characters used to represent numbers.

Normative property

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A Unicode character property used in the specification of the standard.

Oxia

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Greek term for acute accent, used in polytonic Greek character names.

Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU)

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The Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) is a Unicode Standard for reducing the number of bytes needed to represent Unicode text, especially if that text uses mostly characters from one or ...

Reserved code point

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Any code point of the Unicode Standard that is reserved for future assignment. Also known as an unassigned code point. * Surrogate code points and noncharacters are considered assigned code points, ...

Syriac abbreviation mark (SAM)

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The Syriac Abbreviation Mark is a Unicode control character (U+070F) that forms part of the Syriac script block. In Syriac, words are sometimes written in an abbreviated form, omitting some of the ...