Latin Extended-A is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
and is the third block of the Unicode standard. It encodes Latin letters from the
Latin ISO character sets other than Latin-1 (which is already encoded in the
Latin-1 Supplement block) and also legacy characters from the
ISO 6937 standard.
The Latin Extended-A block has been in the Unicode Standard since version 1.0, with its entire character repertoire, except for the Latin Small Letter Long S, which was added during unification with
ISO 10646 in version 1.1. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was European Latin.
Character table
Subheadings
The Latin Extended-A block contains only two subheadings: European Latin and Deprecated letter.
European Latin
The European Latin subheading contains all but one character in the Latin Extended-A block. It is populated with
accented
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacritic ...
and variant
majuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
and minuscule Latin letters for writing mostly eastern European languages.
Deprecated letter
The Deprecated letter subheading contains a single character, Latin Small Letter N Preceded by Apostrophe, which was included for compatibility with the
ISO/IEC 6937 standard.
It was deprecated as of Unicode version 5.2.0,
with the comment that “U+0149 LATIN SMALL LETTER N PRECEDED BY APOSTROPHE” was encoded for use in Afrikaans. The character is deprecated, and its use is strongly discouraged. In nearly all cases it is better represented by a sequence of an apostrophe followed by “n”:
’n.
Table
Compact table
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Latin Extended-A block:
See also
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Phonetic symbols in Unicode
References
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