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What are Unicode Named Character Sequences?

April 26, 2017character named sequences Unicode

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What are Unicode Named Character Sequences?

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These are something new added to the standard starting with Version 4.1. Character sequences are simply any sequence of Unicode characters, typically indicated between angle brackets: . However, occasionally there is a need to supply an official name in the standard to a particular character sequence, as for use in mapping to other standards. These are called Named Character Sequences. See UAX #34, Unicode Named Character Sequences, for a complete explanation.