combining character
Modifies preceding glyph
A combining character is a Unicode character that doesn't stand alone but modifies the character it follows—adding accents, diacritical marks, or other modifications.
The é in café can be a single character or an e followed by a combining acute accent.
Combining characters allow flexible text representation: any base letter can receive any diacritical mark without requiring a separate precomposed character for every possible combination.
Intensely severe or perceptive
- graveSerious and worrying
- circumflexPeaked accent mark
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
- umlautDouble-dot diacritical mark
Visual form of character
- ligatureCord for binding
- kerningLetter-pair spacing adjustment
- fontCharacter style set
- renderingInterpretive depiction or performance
display · overlay · stacking · positioning · baseline · anchor · attachment · typesetting
Converting data to format
- normalizationAdjusting to a standard
- NFCClose-proximity communication protocol
- canonicalAccepted as standard
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
composition · spacing · UTF-8 · plane · block · property · category · bidirectional
Semitic language family member
- HebrewSemitic language of Israel
- ThaiOf Bangkok's nation
- KoreanOf the peninsula nation
- HangulKorean alphabetic script
Vietnamese · Greek · Cyrillic · musical notation · mathematical
Sound notation system
- stress markSymbol showing syllable emphasis
- nasalizationSound routed through nostrils
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
- voicingExpressing aloud
acute
Intensely severe or perceptive
- graveSerious and worrying
- circumflexPeaked accent mark
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
umlaut · cedilla · breve · diaeresis · horn · stroke · overline
glyph
Visual form of character
rendering · display · overlay · stacking · positioning · baseline · anchor · attachment · typesetting · OpenType
encoding
Converting data to format
- normalizationAdjusting to a standard
- NFCClose-proximity communication protocol
- canonicalAccepted as standard
decomposition · composition · spacing · UTF-8 · plane · block · property · category · bidirectional
Arabic
Semitic language family member
Hangul · Vietnamese · Greek · Cyrillic · musical notation · mathematical
IPA
Sound notation system
- stress markSymbol showing syllable emphasis
- nasalizationSound routed through nostrils
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
- charactersprotagonist, antagonist, hero, villain, heroine
- character encodingASCII, charset, encoding, encode, decode
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