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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transfer encoding syntax (TES)

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A reversible transformation applied to text and other data to allow it to be transmitted—for example, Base64, uuencode.

transformation format

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A mapping from a coded character sequence to a unique sequence of code units (typically bytes).

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), ...

international components for unicode (ICU)

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An Open Source set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and software internationalization support.

ideograph

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A technical term for a Chinese character. In the Unicode Standard, sinograms are systematically referred to instead as CJK ideographs or Han ideographs.

ideographic property

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Informative property of characters that are ideographs.

iicore

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A subset of common-use CJK unified ideographs, defined as the fixed collection 370 IICore in ISO/IEC 10646. This subset contains 9,810 ideographs and is intended for common use in East Asian ...