In Unicode, characters can have a unique name. A character can also have one or more alias names. An alias name can be an abbreviation, a C0 or C1 control...
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acronym – Abbreviation consisting of three letters The abbreviations used in the 1913 edition of Webster's dictionary Unicode alias names and abbreviations –...
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name aliases are defined as corrections for defective character names. Apart from these normative names, informal names may be shown in the Unicode code...
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resolved by using Unicode alias names.) While Unicode defines the script designator (name) to be "Phags_Pa", in that script's character names, a hyphen is...
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link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up...
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The Basic Latin Unicode block, sometimes informally called C0 Controls and Basic Latin, is the first block of the Unicode standard, and the only block...
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or other symbols. As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 292,531 assigned characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well...
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Greek alphabet (redirect from Greek characters in Unicode)
as lambda (λάμβδα) except in Modern Greek and in Unicode, where it is lamda (λάμδα), and the most common name for it during the Greek Classical Period...
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this table both new and old names are shown for the renamed controls (the old name is the one matching the abbreviation). Unicode provides Control Pictures...
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Bracket (redirect from List of Unicode brackets)
Lenticular Brakcet [sic]". Since Unicode character names cannot be changed, this character has the corrected name as an alias. Bracket (mathematics) International...
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Syriac is a Unicode block containing characters for all forms of the Syriac alphabet, including the Estrangela, Serto, Eastern Syriac, and the Christian...
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Manichaean script (section Unicode)
separate sign for the conjunction "ud" (and); two dots are placed above characters to indicate abbreviations, and there are several punctuation-marks to...
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Coptic script (section Unicode)
with a continuous overline above the letters, as with Greek and Cyrillic numerals. In Unicode, most Coptic letters formerly shared codepoints with similar...
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Latin alphabet (section Signs and abbreviations)
This habit continued even in the Middle Ages. Hundreds of symbols and abbreviations exist, varying from century to century. It is generally believed that...
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Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits. The following...
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named "BELL" or "BEL". Unicode does not give names to control characters but has assigned it the alias "ALERT" and abbreviation "BEL." It can sometimes...
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Tilde (category CS1:Vancouver names with accept markup)
record interpreter : a collection of abbreviations, Latin words and names used in English historical manuscripts and records (2nd ed.). London, preface...
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Duployan shorthand (section Unicode)
Sloan-Duployan Modern Shorthand, and Romanian stenography, were included as a single script in version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard / ISO 10646 Duployan is...
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Modi script (section Unicode)
You may need rendering support to display the uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. Modi (Marathi: मोडी, 𑘦𑘻𑘚𑘲, Mōḍī, Marathi pronunciation:...
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Georgian scripts (redirect from Khutsuri (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri))
linguist of Kartvelian studies, and American-Irish linguist and script-encoder Michael Everson, who created the Georgian Unicode for the Macintosh systems....
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Khojki script (section Unicode)
India in the region. Some additional letters and forms have been found, are detailed in the Unicode Proposal, and are being researched. Over time some of the...
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Cypro-Minoan syllabary (section Unicode)
Cassandra M., "Repetition, Sortition, and Abbreviations in the Cypro-Minoan Script", Repetition, Communication, and Meaning in the Ancient World. Brill...
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Malayalam script (section Unicode)
romanizations in ISO 15919, transcriptions in IPA, and Unicode CHARACTER NAMES. The character names used in the report of the Government of Kerala committee...
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Tz database (section Names of timezones)
timezone changes, the convention is to create an alias in future editions so that both the old and new names refer to the same database entry. In some cases...
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XML (redirect from XML and MIME)
emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability across the Internet. It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for different human languages...
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Burmese alphabet (section Unicode)
Hosken, Martin. (2012). "Representing Myanmar in Unicode: Details and Examples" (ver. 4). Unicode Technical Note 11. Lieberman, Victor B. (2003). Strange...
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(IDNA): Protocol, Proposed Standard. RFC 5892 – The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA), Proposed Standard....
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Typography of Apple Inc. (redirect from Typography and logography of Apple Computer)
— 236 pages PDF, 5 pages PDF Unicode fonts for Mac OS X computers — Survey of Unicode fonts included with Mac OS X and Microsoft Office 2004. Microsoft's...
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