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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reserved code point

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Any code point of the Unicode Standard that is reserved for future assignment. Also known as an unassigned code point. * Surrogate code points and noncharacters are considered assigned code points, ...

row

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A range of 256 contiguous Unicode code points, where the first code point is an integer multiple of 256. Two code points are in the same row if they share all but the last two hexadecimal digits.

syriac abbreviation mark (SAM)

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The Syriac Abbreviation Mark is a Unicode control character (U+070F) that forms part of the Syriac script block. In Syriac, words are sometimes written in an abbreviated form, omitting some of the ...

single-byte character set (SBCS)

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Any one-byte character encoding. This term is generally used in contrast with DBCS and/or MBCS.

script

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A collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. For example, Russian is written with a subset of the Cyrillic script; Ukranian is ...