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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Script

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A collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. For example, Russian is written with a subset of the Cyrillic script; Ukranian is ...

Single-byte character set (SBCS)

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Any one-byte character encoding. This term is generally used in contrast with DBCS and/or MBCS.

Missing glyph

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A glyph used to render a character that cannot be rendered with the correct appearance in a particular font. It often is shown as an open or black rectangle.

Row

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A range of 256 contiguous Unicode code points, where the first code point is an integer multiple of 256. Two code points are in the same row if they share all but the last two hexadecimal digits.

Unicode transformation format 16 (UTF-16)

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A multibyte encoding for text that represents each Unicode character with 2 or 4 bytes; it is not backward-compatible with ASCII. It is the internal form of Unicode in many programming languages, ...

UTF-16 encoding scheme

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The Unicode encoding scheme that serialises a UTF-16 code unit sequence as a byte sequence in either big-endian or little-endian format. * In the UTF-16 encoding scheme, the UTF-16 code unit sequence ...

UTF-16 encoding form

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The Unicode encoding form that assigns each Unicode scalar value in the ranges U+0000..U+D7FF and U+E000..U+FFFF to a single unsigned 16-bit code unit with the same numeric value as the Unicode ...