A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one...

SIGN Various precomposed letters with a macron below are defined in Unicode: Note that the Unicode character names of precomposed characters whose decompositions...

contains many precomposed characters, so that in many cases it is possible to use both combining diacritics and precomposed characters, at the user's...

characters into a single precomposed character; and character decomposition is the opposite process. In general, precomposed characters are defined to be canonically...

character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by...

points for every precomposed fraction. Ideally a text system should present the same glyphs for a fraction whether it is one of the precomposed fractions (such...

ordinal indicator ⟨º⟩. The ligature has a code point in Unicode as a precomposed character, U+2116 № NUMERO SIGN. The Oxford English Dictionary derives the...

encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed characters are available. An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex...

be encoded either as a single unified character (known as a precomposed character), or as separate characters that combine into a single glyph. The former...

needed] Unicode characters that map to precomposed glyphs can be used in many cases, thus avoiding the problem, but where no precomposed character has been encoded...

code points as those used in ASCII and ISO 8859. There are also precomposed character encodings for ⟨L⟩ and ⟨l⟩ with diacritics, for most of those listed...

must be specified in the character set and must be supported by the computer font in use. There is no precomposed character to combine the acute accent...

Modifier key Option key Shift key Dead key Escape character Compose key Windows Alt keycodes Precomposed character when ⇧ Shift is also pressed In general the...

KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK (applied to a letter) (precomposed characters containing this mark also exists) U+18DE ᣞ CANADIAN SYLLABICS FINAL...

more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a precomposed character or a symbol. For instance, typing Compose followed by...

combining characters after an initial base character; these combining sequences may include a base character or combining characters partially precomposed, but...

code points as those used in ASCII and ISO 8859. There are also precomposed character encodings for ⟨B⟩ and ⟨b⟩ with diacritics, for most of those listed...

{\tfrac {1}{2}}} . The "one-half" symbol has its own code point as a precomposed character in the Latin-1 Supplement block of Unicode, rendering as ½. The...

becoming dead keys only when 'shifted' with AltGr. Additional precomposed characters are also obtained by shifting the 'normal' key using the AltGr key...

key+overtype function was rarely supported, being functionally replaced by precomposed characters. Consequently, this ASCII symbol was rarely (if ever) used in computer...

there are two possible ways to type these: keys can be dedicated to precomposed characters (with the diacritic included); alternatively a dead key mechanism...

code points as those used in ASCII and ISO 8859. There are also precomposed character encodings for ⟨D⟩ and ⟨d⟩ with diacritics, for most of those listed...

Unicode combining character "HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV" (U+05BA, HTML Entity (decimal) ֺ) or the precomposed character וֹ‎ (U+FB4B). Compare...

code points as those used in ASCII and ISO 8859. There are also precomposed character encodings for ⟨A⟩ and ⟨a⟩ with diacritics, for most of those listed...

encodes the underring as a combining character at U+0325 ◌̥ COMBINING RING BELOW. Unicode also has precomposed characters for the letters ⟨A⟩ and ⟨a⟩ with...

marks), there are two possible solutions. Keys can be dedicated to precomposed characters or alternatively a dead key mechanism can be provided. With the...

attempting to support all of the scribal abbreviations, ligatures, precomposed characters, symbols, and alternate letterforms found in medieval texts written...

caron" as precomposed characters and these are displayed below. In addition, many more symbols may be composed using the combining character facility (U+030C...

access to a substantially greater (than Windows) repertoire of precomposed characters for western, central and eastern European (Latin alphabet) languages...

marks mechanism of Unicode, though such characters do not work well with many fonts, and precomposed characters continue to be used. Some software like...