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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Kerning

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(1) Changing the space between certain pairs of letters to improve the appearance of the text. (2) The process of mapping from pairs of glyphs to a positioning offset used to change the space between ...

Letter

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(1) An element of an alphabet. In a broad sense, it includes elements of syllabaries and ideographs. (2) Informative property of characters that are used to write words.

Jungseong filler

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U+1160 hangul jungseong filler. Abbreviated as Vf. * A jungseong filler stands in for a missing jungseong to make a well-formed Korean syllable.

Kanji

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The Japanese name for Han characters; derived from the Chinese word hànzì. Also romanized as kanzi.

Plain text

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Computer-encoded text that consists only of a sequence of code points from a given standard, with no other formatting or structural information. Plain text interchange is commonly used between ...

Phoneme

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A minimally distinct sound in the context of a particular spoken language. For example, in American English, /p/ and /b/ are distinct phonemes because pat and bat are distinct; however, the two ...

Paragraph direction

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The default direction (left or right) of the text of a paragraph. This direction does not change the display order of characters within an Arabic or English word. However, it does change the display ...