Latin Extended Additional 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 ...
.
The characters in this block are mostly precomposed combinations of Latin letters with one or more general
diacritical
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 ''diacriti ...
marks. Ninety of the characters are used in the
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet ( vi, chữ Quốc ngữ, lit=script of the National language) is the modern Latin writing script or writing system for Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally develo ...
. There are also a few Medievalist characters.
Latin extended additional table
The following table shows the contents of the block:
Compact table
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Latin Extended Additional block:
See also
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Vietnamese language and computers
References
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Latin-script Unicode blocks
Unicode blocks