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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Full composition exclusion

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A Canonical Decomposable Character which has the property value Full_Composition_Exclusion=True. * Full composition exclusions consist of the entire list of composition exclusions plus all ...

Graphic character global identifier (GCGID)

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The GCGID identifies graphic characters defined by IBM. The GCGID definition uniformly associates arbitrary graphic character shape with an eight-character identifier GCGID. It also provides a short ...

File system safe UCS transformation format (FSS-UTF)

Computer; Unicode standard

A file format published by the X/Open Company Ltd., and intended for the UNIX environment. It served as the predecessor of what is now known as UTF-8.

Font

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A collection of glyphs used for the visual depiction of character data. A font is often associated with a set of parameters (for example, size, posture, weight, and serifness), which, when set to ...

Fullwidth

Computer; Unicode standard

Characters of East Asian character sets whose glyph image extends across the entire character display cell. In legacy character sets, fullwidth characters are normally encoded in two or three bytes. ...