Terminology

uyyyy notation

ASCII

block

character

character set

code value

diacritic

double-byte character set (DBCS)

efficient (Unicode design basis)

encode

entity reference

glyph

hexadecimal notation

localization

multi-byte character set (MBCS)

portability

script

surrogate

symbol

unambiguous (Unicode design basis)

Unicode Consortium

Unicode design basis

Unicode Standard

Unicode Transformation Format (UTF)

uniform (Unicode design basis)

universal (Unicode design basis)

UTF-8

UTF-16

UTF-32