Citations:abstract character

English citations of abstract character

• 2000, Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, Addison-Wesley Professional:

  An abstract character does not necessarily correspond to what a user thinks of as a "character" and should not be confused with a grapheme.

• 2006, Jukka K. Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 11:

  The second meaning is that “character” is a synonym for “abstract character,” which is defined as “a unit of information used for the organization, control, or representation of textual data.”