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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Decomposable character

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A character that is equivalent to a sequence of one or more other characters, according to the decomposition mappings found in the Unicode Character Database. It may also be known as a precomposed ...

Bicameral

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A script that distinguishes between two cases. Most often used in the context of Latin-based alphabets of Europe and elsewhere in the world.

Bidirectional display

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The process or result of mixing left-to-right text and right-to-left text in a single line.

Compatibility decomposition

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The decomposition of a character or character sequence that results from recursively applying both the compatibility mappings and the canonical mappings found in the Unicode Character Database, ...

Compatibility decomposable character

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A character whose compatibility decomposition is not identical to its canonical decomposition. It may also be known as a compatibility precomposed character or a compatibility composite character. * ...

Combining class

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A numeric value in the range 0..254 given to each Unicode code point, formally defined as the property Canonical_Combining_Class. * The combining class for each encoded character in the standard is ...

Composite character sequence

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A maximal character sequence consisting of either a base character followed by a sequence of one or more characters where each is a combining character, zero width joiner, or zero width non-joiner; ...