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Glyph - Visual representation of a character depending on the font.

[Category=Localization/Localisation ]

Source: Common Sense Advisory, 12 January 2010 13:02:17, http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com/Resources/Glossary/tabid/878/Default.aspx External


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Glyph - A glyph is a presentation of a particular shape a character may have when rendered or displayed,  It has even been said that any character is an abstract idea, whereas glyphs for the character are its different visible manifestations. 

Jukka K. Korpela (2006), "Unicode Explained", O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, USA


glyph - [symbology] The geometric shape of a character in a font.

[Category=Geospatial ]

Source: esri, 03 May 2012 08:59:14, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation External   

 


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