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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subtending mark

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A format character whose graphic form extends under a sequence of following characters—for example, U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN.

supplementary planes

Computer; Unicode standard

Planes 1 through 16, consisting of the supplementary code points.

surrogate character

Computer; Unicode standard

A misnomer. It would be an encoded character having a surrogate code point, which is impossible. Do not use this term.

surrogate code point

Computer; Unicode standard

A Unicode code point in the range U+D800..U+DFFF. Reserved for use by UTF-16, where a pair of surrogate code units (a high surrogate followed by a low surrogate) “stand in” for a supplementary code ...

surrogate pair

Computer; Unicode standard

A representation for a single abstract character that consists of a sequence of two 16-bit code units, where the first value of the pair is a high-surrogate code unit and the second value is a ...

syllabary

Computer; Unicode standard

A type of writing system in which each symbol typically represents both a consonant and a vowel, or in some instances more than one consonant and a vowel.