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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Mora

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A phonological term: the unit of sound which determines syllable weight in some languages. Some syllabaries have characteristics which reflect moraic structure more or less exactly. In particular, ...

Namespace

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A set of names together with name matching rules, so that all names are distinct under the matching rules. * Within a given namespace all names must be unique, although the same name may be used with ...

Named Unicode algorithm

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A Unicode algorithm that is specified in the Unicode Standard or in other standards published by the Unicode Consortium and that is given an explicit name for ease of reference. * Named Unicode ...

Modifier letter

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A character with the Lm General Category in the Unicode Character Database. Modifier letters, which look like letters or punctuation, modify the pronunciation of other letters (similar to ...

Mirrored property

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The property of characters whose images are mirrored horizontally in text that is laid out from right to left (versus from left to right).

Monotonic

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Modern Greek written with the basic accent, the tonos.

Surrogate pair

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A representation for a single abstract character that consists of a sequence of two 16-bit code units, where the first value of the pair is a high-surrogate code unit and the second value is a ...