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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Chillu

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Abbreviation for chilaaksharam (singular) (cillakṣaram). Refers to any of a set of sonorant consonants in Malayalam, when appearing in syllable-final position with no inherent vowel.

Chu nôm

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A demotic script of Vietnam developed from components of Han characters. Its creators used methods similar to those used by the Chinese in creating Han characters.

Choseong filler

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U+115F hangul choseong filler. Abbreviated as Lf. * A choseong filler stands in for a missing choseong to make a well-formed Korean syllable.

Character set

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A collection of elements used to represent textual information.

Character repertoire

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The collection of characters included in a character set.

Encoded character

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An association (or mapping) between an abstract character and a code point. By itself, an abstract character has no numerical value, but the process of "encoding a character" associates a particular ...

Encoding form conversion

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A conversion defined directly between the code unit sequences of one Unicode encoding form and the code unit sequences of another Unicode encoding form. * In implementations of the Unicode Standard, ...