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=={{anchor|Name}}Name and alias==
A Unicode character is assigned a unique ''Name'' (na).<ref name="Chapter4"/> The name is composed of uppercase letters A–Z, digits 0–9, [[hyphen-minus]] and [[
The following Unicode categories do not have a Name value assigned: Controls (General Category: Cc), Private use (Co), Surrogate (Cs), Non-characters (Cn) and Reserved (Cn). They may be referenced, informally, by a generic or specific meta-name, called "Code Point Labels": {{not a typo|<control>, <control-0088>, <reserved>, <noncharacter-''hhhh''>, <private-use-''hhhh''>, or <surrogate>}}. Since these labels contain "<" and ">", they can never appear in a Name, which prevents confusion.
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===Casing===
The Case value is normative in Unicode. It pertains to those scripts with uppercase and
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In Greek, the letter sigma has different lowercase forms depending on where it is in a word. {{Unichar|03a3}} converts to {{Unichar|03c3}} if it is at the start or middle of a word, and converts to {{Unichar|03c2}} if it is at the end of a word.
In Lithuanian, the dot in lowercase i and j is preserved when followed by accents. For example: Í in lowercase is i̇́.<ref>
Despite the existence of {{Unichar|1E9E}}, {{Unichar|00DF}} corresponds to "SS".
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