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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character encoding scheme (CES)

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A character encoding form plus byte serialization. There are seven character encoding schemes in Unicode: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32, UTF-32BE, and UTF-32LE.

encoding scheme

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A character encoding form plus byte serialization. There are seven character encoding schemes in Unicode: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32, UTF-32BE, and UTF-32LE.

character identity

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The identity of a character is established by its character name and representative glyph in the code charts. * A character may have a broader range of use than the most literal interpretation of its ...

character name

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A unique string used to identify each abstract character encoded in the standard. * The character names in the Unicode Standard match those of the English edition of ISO/IEC 10646. * Character names ...

character name alias

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An additional unique string identifier, other than the character name, associated with an encoded character in the standard. * Character name aliases are assigned when there is a serious clerical ...