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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(1) The standard for digital representation of the characters used in writing all of the world's languages. Unicode provides a uniform means for storing, searching, and interchanging text in any ...

Unicode 16-bit string

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A Unicode string containing only UTF-16 code units.

Unicode 32-bit string

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A Unicode string containing only UTF-32 code units.

Unicode 8-bit string

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A Unicode string containing only UTF-8 code units.

Unicode algorithm

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The logical description of a process used to achieve a specified result involving Unicode characters. * This definition, as used in the Unicode Standard and other publications of the Unicode ...

Unicode character database (UCD)

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A collection of files providing normative and informative Unicode character properties and mappings.

Unicode codespace

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A range of integers from 0 to 10FFFF16. * This particular range is defined for the codespace in the Unicode Standard. Other character encoding standards may use other codespaces.