programming language APL uses a number of symbols, rather than words from natural language, to identify operations, similarly to mathematical symbols. Prior to the...
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encodings extended existing simple four-bit numeric encoding to include alphabetic and special characters, mapping them easily to punch-card encoding...
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ASCII (redirect from ASCII (character encoding))
teleprinter encoding systems. Like other character encodings, ASCII specifies a correspondence between digital bit patterns and character symbols (i.e. graphemes...
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contains APL source code. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of APL symbols. APL (named after...
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telecommunications industries in the First World that a non-proprietary method of encoding characters was needed. The International Organization for Standardization...
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Anne. "9. Legacy single-byte encodings". Encoding Standard. WHATWG. Note: ISO-8859-8 and ISO-8859-8-I are distinct encoding names, because ISO-8859-8 has...
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ISO/IEC 2022 (redirect from International Register of Coded Character Sets)
4 ("Encoding Methods"), section "EUC encoding" Lunde (2008), pp. 253–255, Chapter 4 ("Encoding Methods"), section "EUC versus ISO-2022 encodings". ISO-IR-196...
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while 2.1% of web pages located in Turkey declare use of ISO-8859-9. However, the WHATWG Encoding Standard, which specifies the character encodings which are...
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Equals sign (redirect from Equal symbol)
of the page of The Whetstone of Witte on which the equal sign is introduced Scientific Symbols, Icons, Mathematical Symbols Robert Recorde invents the equal...
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10, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001. The same encoding was defined as...
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though the introduction of ISO/IEC 8859-9 superseded it for Turkish. The encoding was popular for users of Esperanto, but fell out of use as application support...
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ISO/IEC 8859-11 (category Encodings of Thai)
in only nine symbols shown boxed in the following table: Differences from ISO 8859-11 Code page 1161 (CP1161, IBM-1161), is a variant of IBM code page...
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Charset detection (redirect from Character encoding detection)
Character encoding detection, charset detection, or code page detection is the process of heuristically guessing the character encoding of a series of bytes...
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Code page (category Character encoding)
emulating the Adobe character sets. 1038 – Adobe Symbol Encoding 1276 – Adobe (PostScript) Standard Encoding 1277 – Adobe (PostScript) Latin 1 These code...
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Tilde (redirect from Tilde symbol)
for Symbols and Greek Letters". HTML help. Retrieved 11 November 2011. "Math Symbols... Those Most Valuable and Important: Approximately Equal Symbol"....
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Greater-than sign (redirect from Greater than symbol)
less-than sign have been repurposed for a range of uses and operations. The earliest known use of the symbols < and > is found in Artis Analyticae Praxis...
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Lotus International Character Set (category Character encoding)
International Character Set (LICS) is a proprietary single-byte character encoding introduced in 1985 by Lotus Development Corporation. It is based on the...
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Question mark (category Typographical symbols)
functions similar to option chaining are supported. In APL, ? generates random numbers or a random subset of indices. In Rust, a ? suffix on a function or method...
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T.51/ISO/IEC 6937 (category Character encoding)
ISO_6937-2-add for two (older) versions of this standard (plus control codes). But in practice this character encoding is unused on the Internet.[citation...
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Full stop (redirect from Period (symbol))
the program. In APL, it is also used for generalised inner product and outer product. In Erlang, Prolog and Smalltalk, it marks the end of a statement ("sentence")...
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Xerox Character Code Standard (category Character encoding)
character encoding that was created by Xerox in 1980 for the exchange of information between elements of the Xerox Network Systems Architecture. It encodes the...
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Neural coding (redirect from Rate encoding)
believed that neurons can encode both digital and analog information. Neurons have an ability uncommon among the cells of the body to propagate signals...
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Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set (category Character encoding)
Japanese and Korean writing systems, and technical symbols. Technically, LMBCS is a lead-byte encoding where code point 00hex as well as code points 20hex...
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Code page 951 (category Encodings of Asian languages)
of their code page 949, an encoding for the Korean language. See Code page 949 (IBM). The code page number 951 was also used by Microsoft as part of a...
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Slash (punctuation) (section Quotient of set)
slash is used as a division operator in most programming languages while APL uses it for reduction (fold) and compression (filter). The double slash is...
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Denial of Service DE—Desktop environment DDR—Double Data Rate DEC—Digital Equipment Corporation DEP—Data Execution Prevention DER—Distinguished Encoding Rules...
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Exponentiation (redirect from Raised to the power of)
BASIC. x ^^ y: Haskell (for fractional base, integer exponents), D. x⋆y: APL. In most programming languages with an infix exponentiation operator, it...
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Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) ISO/IEC 8825-2:2015 Specification of Packed Encoding Rules (PER) ISO/IEC...
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Open-source Unicode typefaces (category Lists of typefaces)
SIL, Gentium and Andika. Mark Williamson's MPH 2B Damase is a free font encoding many non-Latin scripts, including the Unicode 4.1 scripts in the Supplementary...
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