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GLOSSARYASCIIAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange.CharacterLogical unit that represents a letter, digit or symbol of a writing system.Character SetThe mapping of characters from a writing system to a set of binary codes.CJKChinese, Japanese and Korean. Usually used to refer to the common Han ideographs shared by th threelanguages and other issues surrounding this. Sometimes associated with Vietnamese and called CJKV.DNSDomain Name Server, a service that resolves symbolic host names into numeric IP addresses, and viceversa.EncodingA character encoding scheme is a set of rules for representing a sequence of character codes with bytesequence.FontResource that provide a set of glyphs for text rendering.FontconfigA client-side font configuration library split from Xft as an X-independent module. Modern GNU/Linuxdesktops are using it as default font system, as opposed to the traditional font system managed by Xserver.FOSSFree/Open Source Software.GlyphGraphical unit for composing text display of a writing system. A glyph may represent the shape of asingle character, part of a character (in the case of characters with multiple parts), or a combined form ofcharacter sequence (in the case of ligatures).GNOMEGNU Network Object Modelling Environment, a desktop environment based on GTK+ toolkit and otherdesktop components.54