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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
Unicode transformation format 8 (UTF-8)
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A multibyte encoding for text that represents each Unicode character with 1 to 4 bytes, and which is backward-compatible with ASCII. UTF-8 is the predominant form of Unicode in web pages. More ...
UTF-8 encoding form
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The Unicode encoding form that assigns each Unicode scalar value to an unsigned byte sequence of one to four bytes in length. * In UTF-8, the code point sequence is represented as , where ...
UTF-8 encoding scheme
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The Unicode encoding scheme that serializes a UTF-8 code unit sequence in exactly the same order as the code unit sequence itself. * In the UTF-8 encoding scheme, the UTF-8 code unit sequence is ...
varia
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Greek term for grave accent, used in polytonic Greek character names.
visual ambiguity
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A situation arising from two characters (or sequences of characters) being rendered indistinguishably.
visual order
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Characters ordered as they are presented for reading. (Contrast with logical order.)
vocalization
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Marks placed above, below, or within consonants to indicate vowels or other aspects of pronunciation. A feature of Middle Eastern scripts.
