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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An optional code sequence at the beginning of a stream of coded characters that identifies the character encoding scheme used for the following text.

Shift-JIS (SJIS)

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A shifted encoding of the Japanese character encoding standard, JIS X 0208, widely deployed in PCs.

Shaping characters

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Characters that assume different glyphic forms depending on the context.

Unicode encoding scheme

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A specified byte serialisation for a Unicode encoding form, including the specification of the handling of a byte order mark (BOM), if allowed. * For historical reasons, the Unicode encoding schemes ...

Unicode encoding form

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A Unicode encoding form assigns each Unicode scalar value to a unique code unit sequence. The Unicode Standard defines three Unicode encoding forms: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. * For historical ...

Unicode Consortium

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A standards development organisation creating widely-used specifications related to character encoding, as well as for software internationalisation and localization. Major projects are the Unicode ...

Unicode locale data markup language

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The repository of locale data in XML format maintained by the Unicode Consortium. This repository provides information needed in the localization of software products into a wide variety of ...