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Unicode Explained
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Unicode Explained

by Jukka K. Korpela
June 2006
Beginner
688 pages
26h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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cliptext, 83
closed collection, 37
CM * LineBreak property value, 280
Cn General Category value, 218
Co General Category value, 218
code charts, 20, 194
code number, 41, 68, 556
code points, 41, 175, 181–186
order vs. collating order, 260
unassigned, 292
code position, 41, 175
code set value, 41
code units, 139, 184, 292
code value, 41
coded character representation, 292
coded character set, 138
coded combinations of diacritic marks, 418
coding space, 175
collating order, 256–264, 260, 370
collation charts, 257
Collation Element Table, 262
collation elements, 262
collection of characters, 16
colon (:), 392
color of text, 474
Combining Class, 221
combining diacritical marks, 231
comma (,), 392
Comma Separated Values (CSV), 439, 500
command menus, 77, 84–86
writing special characters, 73
comments in Unicode database files, 229
commercial at (@), 386, 392
Common (Zyyy) script code, 345
common character classes, 355
Common Gateway Interface (CGI), 599
Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) (see
CLDR)
common parentheses (()), 388
Comp Ex, 222
compareTo(Character) method, 585
<compat> tag, 236, 238
compat mapping, 490
compatibility characters, 241
avoiding, 243
ligatures, 244
compatibility decomposable characters, 241,
242
definition of, 250
compatibility decompositions, 33, 230, 238–
241
Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-
bit (CESU-8), 312, 313
compatibility equivalence, 240
compatibility formatting tags, 237
compatibility mappings, ...
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