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code point
A value within the codespace of a coded character set.
In relation to domain names, code point generally refers to the unique value assigned to each character in the US-ASCII or Unicode Standard repertoire. By convention, code points in the Unicode Standard are written in hexadecimal form as shown in the following examples:
- U+03A8 Code point for Ψ
- U+0402 Code point for Ђ
- U+20A5 Code point for ¥
- U+25B7 Code point for ▷