during text processing and display. Thus, character properties are an
important part of specifying the character's semantics.
- Emacs generally follows the Unicode Standard in its implementation
+ On the whole, Emacs follows the Unicode Standard in its implementation
of character properties. In particular, Emacs supports the
@uref{http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr23/, Unicode Character Property
Model}, and the Emacs character property database is derived from the
@cindex coded character set
An Emacs @dfn{character set}, or @dfn{charset}, is a set of characters
in which each character is assigned a numeric code point. (The
-Unicode standard calls this a @dfn{coded character set}.) Each Emacs
+Unicode Standard calls this a @dfn{coded character set}.) Each Emacs
charset has a name which is a symbol. A single character can belong
to any number of different character sets, but it will generally have
a different code point in each charset. Examples of character sets