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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user-perceived character

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What everyone thinks of as a character in their script.

Unicode transformation format 16 (UTF-16)

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A multibyte encoding for text that represents each Unicode character with 2 or 4 bytes; it is not backward-compatible with ASCII. It is the internal form of Unicode in many programming languages, ...

UTF-16 encoding form

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The Unicode encoding form that assigns each Unicode scalar value in the ranges U+0000..U+D7FF and U+E000..U+FFFF to a single unsigned 16-bit code unit with the same numeric value as the Unicode ...

UTF-16 encoding scheme

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The Unicode encoding scheme that serializes a UTF-16 code unit sequence as a byte sequence in either big-endian or little-endian format. * In the UTF-16 encoding scheme, the UTF-16 code unit sequence ...

UTF-16LE encoding scheme

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The Unicode encoding scheme that serializes a UTF-16 code unit sequence as a byte sequence in little-endian format. * In UTF-16LE, the UTF-16 code unit sequence is serialized as . * In UTF-16LE, ...

Unicode transformation format 2 (UTF-2)

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Obsolete name for UTF-8.

UTF-32 encoding form

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The Unicode encoding form that assigns each Unicode scalar value to a single unsigned 32-bit code unit with the same numeric value as the Unicode scalar value. * In UTF-32, the code point sequence ...