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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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Surrogate code point
Computer; Unicode standard
A Unicode code point in the range U+D800..U+DFFF. Reserved for use by UTF-16, where a pair of surrogate code units (a high surrogate followed by a low surrogate) "stand in" for a supplementary code ...
Subtending mark
Computer; Unicode standard
A format character whose graphic form extends under a sequence of following characters—for example, U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN.
Surrogate character
Computer; Unicode standard
A misnomer. It would be an encoded character having a surrogate code point, which is impossible. Do not use this term.
String-valued property
Computer; Unicode standard
A property whose value is a string. * The Canonical_Decomposition property is a string-valued property.
Supplementary planes
Computer; Unicode standard
Planes 1 through 16, consisting of the supplementary code points.
Visual order
Computer; Unicode standard
Characters ordered as they are presented for reading. (Contrast with logical order.)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Computer; Unicode standard
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international standards organisation that develops open standards for the continued operations of World Wide Web. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT, the ...
