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Appendix D: Glossary
NCR
See Numeric Character Reference.
NCS
See Noncoded Character Set.
NEC
(nippon denki kabushiki-
gaisha). Nippon Electronics Corporation.
NEC Kanji
e Japanese character set standard and en-
coding developed by NEC. See NEC.
NEC-JIS
See NEC Kanji.
New-JIS
JIS (shin JIS). A common name given to
the JIS X 0208-1983 character set standard.
Usually refers to the two-byte escape se-
quence used to designate the JIS X 0208-1990
character set in JIS encoding.
New-JIS array
JIS (shin JIS hairetsu). e Japanese
keyboard array that was designed to replace
the JIS keyboard array. It departs from the
JIS array in that there are two kana charac-
ters per key. It failed, and the JIS array is still
the most commonly used among the Japanese
keyboard arrays.
NFC
Normalization Form C. Canonical Decom-
position, followed by Canonical Composi-
tion. See Normalization.
NFD
Normalization Form D. Canonical Decom-
position. See Normalization.
NFKC
Normalization Form KC. Compatibility De-
composition, followed by Canonical Compo-
sition. See Normalization.
NFKD
Normalization Form KD. Compatibility De-
composition. See Normalization.
NIC
Network Information Center.
MS Kanji
Another name for Shi-JIS. See MS and Shi-
JIS.
MSB
Most Signicant Bit. e bit with the most
“weight” in an eight-bit sequence (byte). is
bit is what distinguishes seven- and ...