olifExMonoCharEnc
OLIF - monolingual Example - character encoding
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Christian Lieske
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christian.lieske@sap.com
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christian.lieske@sap.com
OLIF - monolingual Example - character encoding
for OLIF2 Consortium
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region_standard
definitions follow that from Yves Savourel's book 'XML Internationalization and Localization'
character
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noun
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the smallest component of written language with a semantic value; examples: a letter, punctuation symbol or ideograph
character set
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noun
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a set of characters; example: the Universal Character set (UCS)
coded character set
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noun
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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
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a scalar value associated with a character in a coded character set
character encoding scheme
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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
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the name of a character encoding scheme; example: windows-1252
escaped character
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a character which has not been encoded by means of the standard character encoding scheme that has been chosen for a document
script
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noun
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a set of characters which is needed to write a language or even a set of languages; example: the Latin script
phoneme
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noun
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a unit of a phonetic system which represents a set of sounds
grapheme
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a unique character, or group of characters, which represents a phoneme
composite character
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a Unicode character consisting of a base character and one or more combining characters