ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
Character: Logical unit that represents a letter, digit or symbol of a writing system.
Character Set: The mapping of characters from a writing system to a set of binary codes.
CJK: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Usually used to refer to the common Han ideographs shared by the three languages and other issues surrounding this. Sometimes associated with Vietnamese and called CJKV.
DNS: Domain Name Server, a service that resolves symbolic host names into numeric IP addresses, and vice versa.
Encoding: A character encoding scheme is a set of rules for representing a sequence of character codes with byte sequence.
Font: Resource that provide a set of glyphs for text rendering.
Fontconfig: A client-side font configuration library split from Xft as an X-independent module. Modern GNU/Linux desktops are using it as default font system, as opposed to the traditional font system managed by X server.
FOSS: Free/Open Source Software.
Glyph: Graphical unit for composing text display of a writing system. A glyph may represent the shape of a single character, part of a character (in the case of characters with multiple parts), or a combined form of character sequence (in the case of ligatures).
GNOME: GNU Network Object Modelling Environment, a desktop environment based on GTK+ toolkit and other desktop components.
GNU: A recursive acronym standing for
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