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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decomposable character

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A character that is equivalent to a sequence of one or more other characters, according to the decomposition mappings found in the Unicode Character Database. It may also be known as a precomposed ...

base character

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Any graphic character except for those with the General Category of Combining Mark (M). In a combining character sequence, the base character is the initial character, which the combining marks are ...

basic multilingual plane (BMP)

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Also called the first plane or plane 0, the BMP is where most characters have been assigned in Unicode. The BMP contains characters for almost all modern languages, and a large number of special ...

bicameral

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A script that distinguishes between two cases. Most often used in the context of Latin-based alphabets of Europe and elsewhere in the world.

case

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(1) Feature of certain alphabets where the letters have two distinct forms. These variants, which may differ markedly in shape and size, are called the uppercase letter (also known as capital or ...

bidirectional (BIDI)

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Referring to text mixed with both left-to-right and right-to-left text. For example, in an Arabic paragraph that contains English product names, the Arabic letters flow from right to left, but the ...