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The Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set (LMBCS) is a proprietary multi-byte character encoding originally conceived in 1988 at Lotus Development Corporation with input from Bob Balaban and others. [1] Created around the same time and addressing some of the same problems, LMBCS could be viewed as parallel development and possible alternative to ...
Determines Character as shown, Name, anchors. Use normalised "000A" (uppercase) notation. |link= link to article, will link from (first) name; optional |gencat= Generic Category, Px by list definition |script= character script property |style= large → double cell height, for example § U+104C: ၌
In Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. [1] Some scripts support one and only one writing system and language, for example, Armenian.
The term SBCS is commonly contrasted against the terms DBCS (double-byte character set) and TBCS (triple-byte character set), as well as MBCS (multi-byte character set). The multi-byte character sets are used to accommodate languages with scripts that have large numbers of characters and symbols, predominantly Asian languages such as Chinese ...
[1] [a] Most common variable-width encodings are multibyte encodings (aka MBCS – multi-byte character set), which use varying numbers of bytes to encode different characters. (Some authors, notably in Microsoft documentation, use the term multibyte character set, which is a misnomer , because representation size is an attribute of the ...
A Unicode character is assigned a unique Name (na). [1] The name is composed of uppercase letters A–Z, digits 0–9, hyphen-minus and space.Some sequences are excluded: names beginning with a space or hyphen, names ending with a space or hyphen, repeated spaces or hyphens, and space after hyphen are not allowed.
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
The ISO 15924 list of script codes is updated regularly, usually at least once a year. The current list is complete as of 12 September 2023, and defines 223 codes (code, number, script name). As of 24 September 2023, this template contains 271 ISO 15924 script codes.