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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well-formed UTF-16 code unit sequence

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A well-formed Unicode code unit sequence of UTF-16 code units.

well-formed UTF-32 code unit sequence

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A well-formed Unicode code unit sequence of UTF-32 code units.

well-formed UTF-8 code unit sequence

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A well-formed Unicode code unit sequence of UTF-8 code units. * The UTF-8 code unit sequence is well-formed, because it can be partitioned into subsequences, all of which match the specification ...

writing direction

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The direction or orientation of writing characters within lines of text in a writing system. Three directions are common in modern writing systems: left to right, right to left, and top to bottom.

writing system

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A set of rules for using one or more scripts to write a particular language. Examples include the American English writing system, the British English writing system, the French writing system, and ...

extensible markup language (XML)

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A subset of SGML constituting a particular text markup language for interchange of structured data. The Unicode Standard is the reference character set for XML content.