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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.
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Indic digits
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Forms of decimal digits used in various Indic scripts (for example, Devanagari: U+0966, U+0967, U+0968, U+0969). Arabic digits (and, eventually, European digits) derive historically from these forms.
International Phonetic Association (IPA)
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The International Phonetic Association (IPA) is an organisation that promotes the scientific study of phonetics and provides a notational standard for the phonetic representation of spoken languages. ...
Internationalisation (I18N)
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The process of designing and implementing a software product so that it can be easily localized, with few if any structural changes. Ideally, an internationalised software product can be localised ...
Inherent vowel
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In writing systems based on a script in the Brahmi family of Indic scripts, a consonant letter symbol normally has an inherent vowel, unless otherwise indicated. The phonetic value of this vowel ...
Independent vowel
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In Indic scripts, certain vowels are depicted using independent letter symbols that stand on their own. This is often true when a word starts with a vowel or a word consists of only a vowel.
Inner caps
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Mixed case format where an uppercase letter is in a position other than first in the word—for example, "G" in the Name "McGowan."
Informative property
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A Unicode character property whose values are provided for information only.
