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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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escape sequence
Computer; Unicode standard
A sequence of bytes that is used for code extension. The first byte in the sequence is escape (hex 1B).
end-user defined character (EUDC)
Computer; Unicode standard
A character defined by an end user, using a private-use code point, to represent a character missing in a particular character encoding. These are common in East Asian implementations.
user-defined character
Computer; Unicode standard
A character defined by an end user, using a private-use code point, to represent a character missing in a particular character encoding. These are common in East Asian implementations.
european digits
Computer; Unicode standard
Forms of decimal digits first used in Europe and now used worldwide. Historically, these digits were derived from the Arabic digits; they are sometimes called “Arabic numerals,” but this nomenclature ...
expanding canonical decomposition
Computer; Unicode standard
A canonical decomposition mapping from a character to a sequence of more than one character.
Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU)
Computer; Unicode standard
The Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) is a Unicode Standard for reducing the number of bytes needed to represent Unicode text, especially if that text uses mostly characters from one or ...
