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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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canonical decomposition
Computer; Unicode standard
Mapping to an inherently equivalent sequence—for example, mapping ä to a + combining umlaut. The decomposition of a character or character sequence that results from recursively applying the ...
canonical equivalent
Computer; Unicode standard
Two character sequences are said to be canonical equivalents if their full canonical decompositions are identical. * For example, the sequences and are canonical equivalents. Canonical ...
canonical ordering algorithm
Computer; Unicode standard
In a decomposed character sequence D, exchange the positions of the characters in each Reorderable Pair until the sequence contains no more Reorderable Pairs. * In effect, the Canonical Ordering ...
cantillation mark
Computer; Unicode standard
A mark that is used to indicate how a text is to be chanted or sung.
case mapping
Computer; Unicode standard
The association of the uppercase, lowercase, and titlecase forms of a letter.
case-ignorable
Computer; Unicode standard
A character C is defined to be case-ignorable if C has the value MidLetter or the value MidNumLet for the Word_Break property or its General_Category is one of Nonspacing_Mark (Mn), Enclosing_Mark ...
