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un un christian.lieske@sap.com OLIF - monolingual Example - character encoding for OLIF2 Consortium use 20010905T140324Z un region_standard definitions follow that from Yves Savourel's book 'XML Internationalization and Localization'

character en noun informatics the smallest component of written language with a semantic value; examples: a letter, punctuation symbol or ideograph character set en noun informatics a set of characters; example: the Universal Character set (UCS) coded character set en noun informatics a character set in which each character is associated with a scalar value (usually a number); example: the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code point en noun informatics a scalar value associated with a character in a coded character set character encoding scheme en noun informatics a mapping between the scalar values (usually numbers) and digital representations (usually sequences of bits or bytes); example: UCS/Unicode Transformation Format, 8-bit encoding form (UTF-8) charset identifier en noun informatics the name of a character encoding scheme; example: windows-1252 escaped character en noun informatics a character which has not been encoded by means of the standard character encoding scheme that has been chosen for a document script en noun informatics a set of characters which is needed to write a language or even a set of languages; example: the Latin script phoneme en noun informatics a unit of a phonetic system which represents a set of sounds grapheme en noun informatics a unique character, or group of characters, which represents a phoneme composite character en noun informatics a Unicode character consisting of a base character and one or more combining characters