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Symbols For Legacy Computing Supplement
Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement is a Unicode block containing additional graphic characters that were used for various home computers from the 1970s and 1980s, extending the set of characters provided by the Symbols for Legacy Computing block. It includes characters from Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple 8-bit, Kaypro CP/M, Mattel Aquarius, Ohio Scientific, Robotron KC 85, Robotron KC, Sharp MZ computers, HP Inc., HP terminals, and TRS-80. It includes a set of semigraphics in the form of 230 "octant" characters, large images split into four "characters", and the "large type" characters used for building large text characters. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block: Implementation The glyphs for the ''Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement'' block have been added to the Cascadia Code (2404.03 release or later), GNU Unifont (version 16.0.01 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Script (Unicode)
In Unicode, a script is a collection of Letter (alphabet), letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support only one writing system and Written language, language, for example, Armenian language, Armenian. Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script in Unicode, Latin script supports English alphabet, English, French alphabet, French, German alphabet, German, Italian alphabet, Italian, Vietnamese language, Vietnamese, Latin alphabet, Latin itself, and several other languages. Some languages make use of multiple alternate writing systems and thus also use several scripts; for example, in Turkish language, Turkish, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, Arabic script was used before the 20th century but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century. More or less complementary to scripts are Unicode symbols, symbols and Unicode control characters. The unified Combi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
