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Encyclopedia > Combining diacritical mark

Combining diacritical marks are Unicode characters that are intended to modify other characters (see Diacritic). The main block of combining diacritics is U+0300–U+036F. They are also present in many other blocks of Unicode characters. In Unicode, diacritics are always added after the main character. It is possible to add several diacritics to the same character. In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a words pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ... In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ...


Unicode also contains a lot of precomposed characters. So in many cases it is possible to use both combining diacritics and precomposed characters, at the user's choice. In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... Precomposed character is a Unicode entity that can be decomposed into a canonically equivalent string of several other characters. ...


On most computer systems today, the combining diacritics are added to main characters with simple superposition of glyphs. The results are usually far from perfect. The better strategy is to use algorithms that allow to select precomposed glyphs for such combinations. This is possible with OpenType fonts. OpenType is a scalable computer font format initially developed by Microsoft, later joined by Adobe Systems. ...


See also

A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a words pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ...

External links

  • Combining diacritics chart (in Adobe PDF format)
  • combining marks testpage facing combined and precomposed letters
  • Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources

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FAQ - Characters, Combining Marks (2686 words)
Graphemes are not necessarily combining character sequences, and combining character sequences are not necessarily graphemes.
Diacritic marks are not encoded by function, and are not specific to language or usage.
The presence of a combining grapheme joiner in the midst of a combining character sequence does not interrupt the combining character sequence.
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