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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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Compatibility
Computer; Unicode standard
(1) Consistency with existing practise or preexisting character encoding standards. (2) Characteristic of a normative mapping and form of equivalence.
Compatibility character
Computer; Unicode standard
A character that would not have been encoded except for compatibility and round-trip convertibility with other standards.
Compatibility equivalent
Computer; Unicode standard
Two character sequences are said to be compatibility equivalents if their full compatibility decompositions are identical.
Glyph code
Computer; Unicode standard
A numeric code that refers to a glyph. Usually, the glyphs contained in a font are referenced by their glyph code. Glyph codes may be local to a particular font; that is, a different font containing ...
Grapheme base
Computer; Unicode standard
A character with the property Grapheme_Base, or any standard Korean syllable block. * Characters with the property Grapheme_Base include all base characters (with the exception of U+FF9E..U+FF9F) ...
Grapheme
Computer; Unicode standard
(1) A minimally distinctive unit of writing in the context of a particular writing system. For example, ‹b› and ‹d› are distinct graphemes in English writing systems because there exist distinct ...
