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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letter

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(1) An element of an alphabet. In a broad sense, it includes elements of syllabaries and ideographs. (2) Informative property of characters that are used to write words.

ligature

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A glyph representing a combination of two or more characters. In the Latin script, there are only a few in modern use, such as the ligatures between “f” and “i” or “f” and “l”. Other scripts make use ...

little-endian

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

explicit property value

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A value for an encoded character property that is explicitly associated with a code point in one of the data files of the Unicode Character Database.

extended base

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Any base character, or any standard Korean syllable block. This term is defined to take into account the fact that sequences of Korean conjoining jamo characters behave as if they were a single ...

extended combining character sequence (ECCS)

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A maximal character sequence consisting of either an extended base followed by a sequence of one or more characters where each is a combining character, zero width joiner, or zero width non-joiner ; ...

extended grapheme cluster (EGC)

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The text between extended grapheme cluster boundaries as specified by Unicode Standard Annex #29, “Unicode Text Segmentation.” * Extended grapheme clusters are defined in a parallel manner to legacy ...