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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BMP code point

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A Unicode code point between U+0000 and U+FFFF.

supplementary code point

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A Unicode code point between U+0000 and U+FFFF.

Backus-Naur form (BNF)

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A formal meta-syntax for describing context-free syntaxes. (For details, see Appendix A, Notational Conventions.)

binary ordered compression for Unicode (BOCU-1)

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A Unicode compression scheme that is MIME-compatible (directly usable for e-mail) and preserves binary order, which is useful for databases and sorted lists.

boolean property

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A closed enumerated property whose set of values is limited to “true” and “false”. * The presence or absence of the property is the essential information.

code page

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A coded character set, often referring to a coded character set used by a personal computer—for example, PC code page 437, the default coded character set used by the U.S. English version of the DOS ...

code point

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(1) Any value in the Unicode codespace; that is, the range of integers from 0 to 10FFFF16. Not all code points are assigned to encoded characters. See code point type. (2) A value, or position, for a ...