June 2006
Beginner
688 pages
26h 18m
English
Content preview from Unicode Explained
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Index
Symbols
! (exclamation mark), 283, 393
" (quotation mark), 7, 100, 397
# (comments) in Unicode database files, 229
# (number sign), 386, 396
$ (dollar sign), 392, 409, 450
% (percent sign), 396
& (ampersand), 389
' (apostrophe), 80, 389
vs. single quotation mark, 432
'\0' null character (C), 568
() (parentheses), 388
* (asterisk), 390
+ (plus sign), 397
catenation operator, 576
, (comma), 392
- (hyphen-minus) (see hyphen-minus)
. (catenation operator), 576
. (full stop), 386, 393
... (ellipsis points), 359, 435
.doc format, 47
/ (division slash), 447
/ (solidus), 386, 399
division mark and, 411
The 10 Unicode Design Principles, 159
16-bit, 165, 213
Java and, 581
7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding value, 514
8-bit, 4, 570
ad hoc, defined by fonts, 136
codes, 130–138
Content-Transfer-Encoding value, 514
headers, using characters in, 548
Vietnamese codes, 144
: (colon), 392
; (semicolon), 399
in Unicode database files, 229
< (less-than sign), 395
= (equals sign), 393
> (greater-than sign), 394
? (question mark), 397
@ (commercial at), 386, 392
[ ] (square brackets), 388
\ (reverse solidus), 386, 399
\" (quotation mark) escape notation, 556
\' (apostrophe) escape notation, 556
\a (alert) escape notation, 556
\b (backspace) escape notation, 556
\f (form feed) escape notation, 556
\n (newline) escape notation, 556
\r (return)) escape notation, 556
\t (tab) escape notation, 556
\u escape notation, 578
\v (vertical tab) escape notation, ...
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