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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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Unicode standard

Low-surrogate code unit

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A 16-bit code unit in the range DC0016 to DFFF16, used in UTF-16 as the trailing code unit of a surrogate pair. * High-surrogate and low-surrogate code points are designated only for that use. * ...

Logosyllabary

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A writing system in which the units are used primarily to write words and/or morphemes of words, with some subsidiary usage to represent just syllabic sounds. The best example is the Han script.

Least significant byte (LSB)

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The byte of a multibyte number with the least importance: that is, the byte stored last on a big-endian system or first on a little-endian system.

LV Syllable

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A character with Hangul_Syllable_Type property value LV_Syllable. Abbreviated as LV. * An LV_Syllable has a canonical decomposition to a sequence of the form .

Little-endian

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A computer architecture that stores multiple-byte numerical values with the least significant byte (LSB) values first.

Logical order

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The order in which text is typed on a keyboard. For the most part, logical order corresponds to phonetic order.

Low-surrogate code point

Computer; Unicode standard

A Unicode code point in the range U+DC00 to U+DFFF.

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