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The Unicode Consortium or Unicode Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Its stated goal is to eventually enable computers to operate in all languages from around the world. The consortium develops and publishes a list of freely-available ...
A sequence of zero or more case-ignorable characters.
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A property that is an enumerated property, typically unrelated to an algorithm, that may be extended in each successive version of the Unicode Standard.
* Examples are the Age, Block, and Script properties. Additional new values for the set of enumerated values for these properties may be added each time the standard is revised. A new value for Age is added for each new Unicode version, a new value for Block is added for each new block added to the standard, and a new value for Script is added for each new script added to the standard.
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A mark originally placed beneath the letter c in French, Portuguese, and Spanish to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced as an s, as in façade. Obsolete Spanish diminutive of ceda, the letter z.
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(1) An abstract form that represents one or more glyph images. (2) A synonym for glyph image. In displaying Unicode character data, one or more glyphs may be selected to depict a particular character. These glyphs are selected by a rendering engine during composition and layout processing.
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A set of characters sharing a particular set of properties.
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Mapping from a character set definition to the actual code units used to represent the data.
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Mapping from a character set definition to the actual code units used to represent the data.
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A character encoding form plus byte serialization. There are seven character encoding schemes in Unicode: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32, UTF-32BE, and UTF-32LE.
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A character encoding form plus byte serialization. There are seven character encoding schemes in Unicode: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32, UTF-32BE, and UTF-32LE.
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The identity of a character is established by its character name and representative glyph in the code charts.
* A character may have a broader range of use than the most literal interpretation of its name might indicate; the coded representation, name, and representative glyph need to be assessed in context when establishing the identity of a character. For example, U+002E full stop can represent a sentence period, an abbreviation period, a decimal number separator in English, a thousands number separator in German, and so on. The character name itself is unique, but may be misleading.
* Consistency with the representative glyph does not require that the images be identical or even graphically similar; rather, it means that both images are generally recognized to be representations of the same character. Representing the character U+0061 latin small letter a by the glyph “X” would violate its character identity.
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