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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noncharacter

Computer; Unicode standard

A code point that is permanently reserved for internal use and that should never be interchanged. Noncharacters consist of the values U+nFFFE and U+nFFFF (where n is from 0 to 1016) and the values ...

non-joiner

Computer; Unicode standard

An invisible character that affects the joining behavior of surrounding characters.

non-overridable

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A characteristic of a Unicode character property that cannot be changed by a higher-level protocol.

nonspacing diacritic

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A diacritic that is a nonspacing mark.

nonspacing mark (NSM)

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A combining character with the General Category of Nonspacing Mark (Mn) or Enclosing Mark (Me). * The position of a nonspacing mark in presentation depends on its base character. It generally does ...

non-starter decomposition

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An expanding canonical decomposition which is not a starter decomposition. * Example: U+0344 combining greek dialytika tonos has an expanding canonical decomposition to the sequence . U+0344 is a ...

normalization

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A process of removing alternate representations of equivalent sequences from textual data, to convert the data into a form that can be binary-compared for equivalence. In the Unicode Standard, ...