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787
ve basic stroke types used as building blocks
for ideographs. Represents vertical strokes.
See also stroke.
S32S
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Sans serif
French for without serifs. Sans serif charac-
ters do not have little feet on them. Helvetica
(this is Helvetica) is a widely used sans serif
typeface. See also serif.
SAR
Special Administrative Region.
SBCS
Single-Byte Character Set.
SBCS-Host
A single-byte character set that is encoded ac-
cording to EBCDIC. See EBCDIC.
SBCS-PC
A single-byte character set that is encoded ac-
cording to ASCII. See ASCII.
SCIM
Smart Common Input Method.
Script
Unicode denes “script” as a collection of let-
ters and other written signs used to represent
textual information in one or more writing
systems. See also writing system.
SDC
See system-dened character.
SDK
Soware Development Kit. A collection of
soware and documentation that is speci-
cally designed to aid others to develop so-
ware for a particular technology.
Serif
Characters that have little feet to act as guide
marks. Derives all the way from days when
letters were carved in stone—the serifs were
added to provide even height, and the overall
style improves legibility. Garamond, which is
used as the standard textface in this book, is
an example of a serif typeface. See also sans
serif.
SG
e two-letter country code for Singapore.
ROK
/ (daehan minguk). Re-
public of ...