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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 standard
full composition exclusion
Computer; Unicode standard
A Canonical Decomposable Character which has the property value Full_Composition_Exclusion=True. * Full composition exclusions consist of the entire list of composition exclusions plus all ...
fullwidth
Computer; Unicode standard
Characters of East Asian character sets whose glyph image extends across the entire character display cell. In legacy character sets, fullwidth characters are normally encoded in two or three bytes. ...
graphic character global identifier (GCGID)
Computer; Unicode standard
The GCGID identifies graphic characters defined by IBM. The GCGID definition uniformly associates arbitrary graphic character shape with an eight-character identifier GCGID. It also provides a short ...
general category
Computer; Unicode standard
Partition of the characters into major classes such as letters, punctuation, and symbols, and further subclasses for each of the major classes.
globalization (G11N)
Computer; Unicode standard
(1) The overall process for internationalization and localization of software products. (2) a synonym for internationalization. Also known by the abbreviation "g11n". Note that the meaning of ...
glyph
Computer; Unicode standard
(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 ...
