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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
normative property
Computer; Unicode standard
A Unicode character property used in the specification of the standard.
numeric property
Computer; Unicode standard
A numeric property is a property whose value is a number that can take on any integer or real value. * An example is the Numeric_Value property. There is no implied limit to the number of possible ...
numeric value property
Computer; Unicode standard
A property of characters used to represent numbers.
obsolete
Computer; Unicode standard
Applies to a character that is no longer in current use, but that has been used historically. Whether a character is obsolete depends on context: For example, the Cyrillic letter big yus is obsolete ...
out-of-band
Computer; Unicode standard
An out-of-band channel conveys additional information about text in such a way that the textual content, as encoded, is completely untouched and unmodified. This is typically done by separate data ...
overridable
Computer; Unicode standard
A characteristic of a Unicode character property that may be changed by a higher-level protocol to create desired implementation effects.
overridable property
Computer; Unicode standard
A normative property whose values may be overridden by conformant higher-level protocols. * For example, the Canonical_Decomposition property is not overridable. The Uppercase property can be ...
