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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sinogram

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A technical term for a Chinese character. In the Unicode Standard, sinograms are systematically referred to instead as CJK ideographs or Han ideographs.

small letter

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Synonym for lowercase letter.

sorting

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(See collation.)

spacing mark

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A combining character that is not a nonspacing mark. * Examples include U+093F devanagari vowel sign i. In general, the behavior of spacing marks does not differ greatly from that of base ...

stabilized property

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A property that is neither extended to new characters nor maintained in any other manner, but that is retained in the Unicode Character Database. * A stabilized property is also a fixed property.

stable comparison.

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See deterministic comparison.

stable property

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A property is stable with respect to a particular algorithm or process as long as possible changes in the assignment of property values are restricted in such a manner that the result of the ...