Questions tagged [unicode]
For questions about Unicode, a standard for all the characters of all writing systems of the world.
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What is the cuneiform glyph for peace? [closed]
Is there such a thing as a symbol or glyph for "peace" in cuneiform script.
If it does exist, does it exist in the unicode block?
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Why are letters with a stroke not decomposed in Unicode?
There's a strait which is called Øresund in Danish and Öresund in Swedish.
Looking at Latin Capital Letter O with Stroke, it has no decomposition rules.
Looking at Latin Capital Letter O with ...
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What IPA Symbols Are Equivalent to Each of These Middle High German Diacritics?
I recently came across this article on the inclusion of certain superscript combining characters for use with representing Middle High German in Unicode. From what I understand, scribes and early ...
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How to "remove diacritics" from Arabic text in unicode? [closed]
I have put together this CodePen with a rendering demonstrating how I am "stripping diacritics" from Arabic text. Here is the main code doing the stripping:
const map = {
'آ': 'ا',
'أ': '...
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What are the high and low letters in the Unicode Arabic block?
For example, we have:
ٴ : high hamza, as opposed to regular hamza ء
ء: small high meem, as opposed to regular meem م
U+0616: ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH
U+0615: ARABIC SMALL ...
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What is unicode character turned AE ᴂ(U+1D02) used for?
The near-open front unrounded vowel is written as æ(U+00E6), commented as "Latin Small Letter Ae". But I found the character ᴂ(U+1D02) commented as "Latin Small Letter Turned Ae" ...
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How do I find the proposal document(s) for an unicode character accepted in Unicode? [closed]
How do I easily find all the documents related to a specific unicode character, starting from the proposal document till any latest modifications to the same (if any)?
For example, if I wanted to ...
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Elaborated keywords,tags,descriptions for characters in unicode
More than the official title, I'm looking for metadata per unicode point.
consider folloing characters:
> unicode point, name, representation, Other Keywords
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> U+1301E, EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH ...
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Is 😂 a word/letter?
Can "😂" (the Face with Tears of Joy emoji) be technically considered a word, from a linguistic point of view?
Obviously, emoji are different from "ordinary" words, but:
"😂&...
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Where are the letters ǽ and ǣ used ( U+01E3 and U+01FD)?
I tried to find examples but while æ is widely used (Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Old English at least) I can't find anything about their accented versions.
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Where can I find the letters of documented writing systems, as text, online?
I was looking for the letters of the Safaitic writing system of Ancient North Arabian (ANA) as text, online.
Safaitic is a well documented and researched writing system that was a prominent (if not ...
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What is the purpose of transliteration?
On the Wylie Tibetan Transliteration page (original paper), it says:
Previous transcription schemes sought to split the difference with the result that they achieved neither goal perfectly. Wylie ...
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How do you translate academic runic encodings to runes (ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲ)?
I have not been able to find a single resource online that has (unicode encoded) Runic inscriptions like a full text of ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲ, or even a dictionary. This site lists some resources, most of which are ...
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How Hebrew Vowels Work [closed]
I am trying to find a document that clearly explains how to apply Hebrew vowels (and what all the combining characters are for Hebrew vowels), but I haven't been able to find anything after a few ...
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The letter "Ng" in Filipino/Tagalog and its Unicode value
In Wikipedia, the letter Ng is listed as one of the 28 letters of the Filipino alphabet. However, when I click on the link to go to Ng's page, I get to a list of digraphs. I'm not a linguist, but as ...
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