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Universal Character Set characters

The Unicode Consortium and the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 jointly collaborate on the list of the characters in the Universal Coded Character Set. The Universal Coded Character Set, most commonly called the Universal Character Set (abbr. UCS, official designation: ISO/IEC 10646), is an international standard to map characters, discrete symbols used in…

Characters & Standards

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Special-purpose characters

GraphemesOpenTypeApple Advanced TypographyZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACEUTF-8
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Overview

Unicode ConsortiumISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2WGUniversal Character SetISO
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Character reference overview

HTMLXMLDecimalEntityDocument Type Definition
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Characters, grapheme clusters and glyphs

DiacriticDiaeresisCursiveArabic
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Overview

Character reference overview

Planes

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Categories

Special-purpose characters

Characters vs. code points

Whitespace, joiners, and separators

Types of code point

Characters, grapheme clusters and glyphs

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Universal Character Set characters

Nodes98
Edges97
Triples6
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020408
Components1

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Important terminology

characters character unicode text code ucs points glyph use point fraction may used many sequence example software one control symbols

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
UTF-16instance ofThis provides a simple built-in method for encoding the 20.1 bit UCS within a 16 bit encoding0.80text
in a two-dimensional index like iinstance ofprovides a separator between characters where punctuation or space may be omitted0.80text
221instance ofa plain text string0.80text
carriage returninstance ofThese provide Unicode with native paragraph and line separators independent of the legacy encoded ASCII control characters0.80text
the soft hypheninstance ofor suggesting line breaks0.80text
Arabic written in an Arabic script are always cursiveinstance ofLanguages0.80text

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