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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Unicode scalar value

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Ny Unicode code point except high-surrogate and low-surrogate code points. In other words, the ranges of integers 0 to D7FF16 and E00016 to 10FFFF16 inclusive. * As a result of this definition, the ...

Unicode locale data markup language (LDML)

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The XML specification for the exchange of locale data, defined by Unicode Technical Standard #35, "Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)." (See also Unicode Common Locale Data Repository.)

Unicode signature

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An implicit marker to identify a file as containing Unicode text in a particular encoding form. An initial byte order mark (BOM) may be used as a Unicode signature.

Basic multilingual plane (BMP)

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Also called the first plane or plane 0, the BMP is where most characters have been assigned in Unicode. The BMP contains characters for almost all modern languages, and a large number of special ...

Base character

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Any graphic character except for those with the General Category of Combining Mark (M). In a combining character sequence, the base character is the initial character, which the combining marks are ...

Case

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(1) Feature of certain alphabets where the letters have two distinct forms. These variants, which may differ markedly in shape and size, are called the uppercase letter (also known as capital or ...

Bidirectional (BIDI)

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Referring to text mixed with both left-to-right and right-to-left text. For example, in an Arabic paragraph that contains English product names, the Arabic letters flow from right to left, but the ...