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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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oxia
Computer; Unicode standard
Greek term for acute accent, used in polytonic Greek character names.
paragraph direction
Computer; Unicode standard
The default direction (left or right) of the text of a paragraph. This direction does not change the display order of characters within an Arabic or English word. However, it does change the display ...
paragraph embedding level
Computer; Unicode standard
The embedding level that determines the default bidirectional orientation of the text in that paragraph.
perispomeni
Computer; Unicode standard
Greek term for circumflex accent, used in polytonic Greek character names.
phoneme
Computer; Unicode standard
A minimally distinct sound in the context of a particular spoken language. For example, in American English, /p/ and /b/ are distinct phonemes because pat and bat are distinct; however, the two ...
pinyin
Computer; Unicode standard
Standard system for the romanization of Chinese on the basis of Mandarin pronunciation.
pivot conversion
Computer; Unicode standard
The use of a third character encoding to serve as an intermediate step in the conversion between two other character encodings. The Unicode Standard is widely used to support pivot conversion, as its ...
