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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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Unicode collation algorithm (UCA)

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Tailorable text comparison mechanism used for searching, sorting, and matching Unicode strings. See Unicode Technical Standard #10, “Unicode Collation Algorithm.”

Unicode common locale data repository (CLDR)

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The repository of locale data in XML format maintained by the Unicode Consortium. This repository provides information needed in the localization of software products into a wide variety of ...

unicode locale data markup language

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The repository of locale data in XML format maintained by the Unicode Consortium. This repository provides information needed in the localization of software products into a wide variety of ...

Unicode Consortium

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A standards development organization creating widely-used specifications related to character encoding, as well as for software internationalization and localization. Major projects are the Unicode ...

high-surrogate code point

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A Unicode code point in the range U+D800 to U+DBFF.

high-surrogate code unit

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A 16-bit code unit in the range D80016 to DBFF16, used in UTF-16 as the leading code unit of a surrogate pair.

leading surrogate

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A 16-bit code unit in the range D80016 to DBFF16, used in UTF-16 as the leading code unit of a surrogate pair.

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