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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

UTF-32 encoding form

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The Unicode encoding form that assigns each Unicode scalar value to a single unsigned 32-bit code unit with the same numeric value as the Unicode scalar value. * In UTF-32, the code point sequence ...

UTF-16LE encoding scheme

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

Unified repertoire and ordering (URO)

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The original set of CJK unified ideographs used in the Unicode Standard and ISO 10646. In its original form, it included 20,902 characters. Since then, 38 characters have been appended to the URO.

User-perceived character

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What everyone thinks of as a character in their script.

Chu hán

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The name for Han characters used in Vietnam; derived from hànzì.

Character semantics

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The semantics of a character are determined by its identity, normative properties, and behavior. * Some normative behaviour is default behavior; this behaviour can be overridden by higher-level ...

Choseong

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A sequence of one or more leading consonants in Korean. * In Modern Korean, a choseong consists of a single jamo. In Old Korean, a sequence of more than one leading consonant may occur. * Equivalent ...

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