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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Compatibility

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(1) Consistency with existing practise or preexisting character encoding standards. (2) Characteristic of a normative mapping and form of equivalence.

Compatibility character

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A character that would not have been encoded except for compatibility and round-trip convertibility with other standards.

Compatibility equivalent

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Two character sequences are said to be compatibility equivalents if their full compatibility decompositions are identical.

Combining mark

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A commonly used synonym for combining character.

Glyph code

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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

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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

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(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 ...