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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
Cedilla
Computer; Unicode standard
A mark originally placed beneath the letter c in French, Portuguese, and Spanish to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced as an s, as in façade. Obsolete Spanish diminutive of ceda, the letter ...
Case-ignorable sequence
Computer; Unicode standard
A sequence of zero or more case-ignorable characters.
Cantillation mark
Computer; Unicode standard
A mark that is used to indicate how a text is to be chanted or sung.
Case mapping
Computer; Unicode standard
The association of the uppercase, lowercase, and titlecase forms of a letter.
Character class
Computer; Unicode standard
A set of characters sharing a particular set of properties.
Directionality property
Computer; Unicode standard
A property of every graphic character that determines its horizontal ordering as specified in Unicode Standard Annex #9, "Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm."
Multibyte character set
Computer; Unicode standard
One of a number of character sets defined for representing Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text (for example, JIS X 0208-1990). These character sets are often encoded in such a way as to allow ...
