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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Arabic-Indic digits

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Forms of decimal digits used in most parts of the Arabic world (for instance, U+0660, U+0661, U+0662, U+0663). Although European digits (1, 2, 3,…) derive historically from these forms, they are ...

Annotation

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The association of secondary textual content with a point or range of the primary text. (The value of a particular annotation is considered to be a part of the "content" of the text. Typical examples ...

Arabic digits

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The term "Arabic digits" may mean either the digits in the Arabic script (see Arabic-Indic digits) or the ordinary ASCII digits in contrast to Roman numerals (see European digits). When the term ...

Assigned character

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Synonym for assigned to an abstract character. This refers to graphic, format, control, and private-use characters that have been encoded in the Unicode Standard.

Alphabetic sorting

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The process of ordering units of text based on the alphabetical order. Alphabetic sorting is usually specific to a particular language.

Apparatus criticus

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Collection of conventions used by editors to annotate and comment on text.

Closed enumeration

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An enumerated property for which the set of values is closed and will not be extended for future versions of the Unicode Standard. * The General_Category and Bidi_Class properties are the only closed ...