Combining Diacritical Marks is a
Unicode block containing the most common
combining characters
In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents).
Unicode also ...
. It also contains the character "
Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single
grapheme
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system.
The word ''grapheme'' is derived and the suffix ''-eme'' by analogy with ''phoneme'' and other names of emic units. The study of graphemes is called '' graphemi ...
in a given context. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Generic Diacritical Marks.
Block
Character table
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Combining Diacritical Marks block:
See also
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Phonetic symbols in Unicode
References
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Unicode blocks