codepoint

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A form of code point — A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to a displayed grapheme or character, which can be composed of several code points.

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Meanings

nouncodepoint (plural codepoints)

plural codepoints

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of code point.
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    The following table shows the relationship of the magnetic stripe code to the codepoint that the display generates. This relationship is independent of the graphic character set supported by the attaching display. For example, the same codepoint is generated for the U.S. EBCDIC character set displays as would be generated for a German character-set display.

    1992 June, chapter 7, in 3270 Information Display System: Data Stream Programmer's Reference, Eight edition, International Business Machines Corporation, page 8

Origin

From code + point.

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