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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deprecated character

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A coded character whose use is strongly discouraged. Such characters are retained in the standard, indefinitely but should not be used. * Deprecated characters are retained in the standard ...

deprecated property

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A property whose use by implementations is discouraged. * One of the reasons a property may be deprecated is because a different combination of properties better expresses the intended semantics. * ...

derived property

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A Unicode character property whose values are algorithmically derived from some combination of simple properties.

designated code point

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Any code point that has either been assigned to an abstract character (assigned characters) or that has otherwise been given a normative function by the standard (surrogate code points and ...

assigned code point

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Any code point that has either been assigned to an abstract character (assigned characters) or that has otherwise been given a normative function by the standard (surrogate code points and ...

deterministic comparison

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A string comparison in which strings that do not have identical contents will compare as unequal. There are two main varieties, depending on the sense of "identical:" (a) binary equality, or (b) ...

deterministic sort

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A sort algorithm which returns exactly the same output each time it is applied to the same input. This is a property of the sorting algorithm, and not of the comparison mechanism. For example, a ...