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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Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK)

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CJK is a commonly used term to describe the three double-byte languages in software internalisation and localization. Prior to Unicode, applications must be edited to support the display and ...

Code point

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(1) Any value in the Unicode codespace; that is, the range of integers from 0 to 10FFFF16. Not all code points are assigned to encoded characters. See code point type. (2) A value, or position, for a ...

Code point property

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A property of code points. * Code point properties refer to attributes of code points per se, based on architectural considerations of this standard, irrespective of any particular encoded ...

Code page

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A coded character set, often referring to a coded character set used by a personal computer—for example, PC code page 437, the default coded character set used by the U.S. English version of the DOS ...