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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primary composite

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A Canonical Decomposable Character (D69) which is not a Full Composition Exclusion. * For any given version of the Unicode Standard, the list of primary composites can be computed by extracting all ...

private use

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Refers to designated code points in the Unicode Standard or other character encoding standards whose interpretations are not specified in those standards and whose use may be determined by private ...

private use area (PUA)

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Any one of the three blocks of private-use code points in the Unicode Standard.

private-use code point

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Code points in the ranges U+E000..U+F8FF, U+F0000..U+FFFFD, and U+100000..U+10FFFD. These code points are designated in the Unicode Standard for private use. * Private-use code points are considered ...

productive

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Said of a feature or rule that can be employed in novel combinations or circumstances, rather than being restricted to a fixed list. In the Unicode Standard, combining marks—particularly the ...

property

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A named attribute of an entity in the Unicode Standard, associated with a defined set of values.

property alias

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A unique identifier for a particular Unicode character property. * The identifiers used for property aliases contain only ASCII alphanumeric characters or the underscore character. * Short and long ...