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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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Digraph
Computer; Unicode standard
A pair of signs or symbols (two graphs), which together represent a single sound or a single linguistic unit. The English writing system employs many digraphs (for example, th, ch, sh, qu, and so ...
Double-byte character set (DBCS)
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 ...
Diphthong
Computer; Unicode standard
A pair of vowels that are considered a single vowel for the purpose of phonemic distinction. One of the two vowels is more prominent than the other. In writing systems, diphthongs are sometimes ...
Display cell
Computer; Unicode standard
A rectangular region on a display device within which one or more glyphs are imaged.
Ductility
Computer; Unicode standard
The ability of a cursive font to stretch or compress the connective baseline to effect text justification.
Dialytika
Computer; Unicode standard
Greek term for diaeresis or trema, used in Greek character names.
Ill-formed code unit subsequence
Computer; Unicode standard
A non-empty subsequence of a Unicode code unit sequence X which does not contain any code units which also belong to any minimal well-formed subsequence of X. * In other words, an ill-formed code ...
