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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.
Contributors in Unicode standard
Unicode standard
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK)
Computer; Unicode standard
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
Computer; Unicode standard
(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
Computer; Unicode standard
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
Computer; Unicode standard
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 ...
Code point type
Computer; Unicode standard
Any of the seven fundamental classes of code points in the standard: Graphic, Format, Control, Private-Use, Surrogate, Noncharacter, Reserved.
Code position
Computer; Unicode standard
Synonym for code point. Used in ISO character encoding standards.
General category
Computer; Unicode standard
Partition of the characters into major classes such as letters, punctuation, and symbols, and further subclasses for each of the major classes.
