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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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enclosing mark
Computer; Unicode standard
A nonspacing mark with the General Category of Enclosing Mark (Me). Enclosing marks are a subclass of nonspacing marks that surround a base character, rather than merely being placed over, under, or ...
encoded character
Computer; Unicode standard
An association (or mapping) between an abstract character and a code point. By itself, an abstract character has no numerical value, but the process of “encoding a character” associates a particular ...
encoded character property
Computer; Unicode standard
A property of encoded characters in the Unicode Standard. * For each encoded character property there is a mapping from every code point to some value in the set of values associated with that ...
encoding form conversion
Computer; Unicode standard
A conversion defined directly between the code unit sequences of one Unicode encoding form and the code unit sequences of another Unicode encoding form. * In implementations of the Unicode Standard, ...
enumerated property
Computer; Unicode standard
A property with a small set of named values. * As characters are added to the Unicode Standard, the set of values may need to be extended in the future, but enumerated properties have a relatively ...
equivalence
Computer; Unicode standard
In the context of text processing, the process or result of establishing whether two text elements are identical in some respect.
