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	Combining character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters.
		The best known combining characters (at least to westerners) are the Combining diacritical marks (including combining accents).
		Combining diacritical marks are also present in many other blocks of Unicode characters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Combining_diacritical_mark (264 words)

	Unicode's characters
		An abstract character is a unit of textual information such that a sequence of characters defines an abstract text that can be written or recited in various concrete ways all of which are obviously presenting the same underlying text.
		The combining character is supposed to change the shape of the preceding character.
		A character's assigned Unicode number is supposed to stay valid for eternity but this ideal was compromised by changes for Unicode 1.1 (removals and reorderings) and Unicode 2.0 (Hangul reordering) already.
	czyborra.com /unicode/characters.html (3463 words)

	Glossary
		Character classification information provides details about the type of character associated with each legal character code; that is, whether it is an alphabetic, uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, control, or space character, etc.
		A character set encoding is a set of unambiguous rules that establishes a character set and the one-to-one relationship between each character of the set and its bit representation.
		Characters from 0-127 (the 7-bit ASCII characters) are encoded with one byte, characters from 128-2047 require two bytes, and characters from 2048-65535 require three bytes.
	www.cs.umbc.edu /help/oracle8/server.815/a67789/appd.htm (1557 words)

	RFC 3536 (rfc3536) - Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF
		Characters in the BMP are always encoded as two octets, and characters outside the BMP are encoded as four octets.
		For example, the letter "a with acute" might be a combination of the two characters "a" and "combining acute", or it might be a combination of the three characters "a", a non- destructive backspace, and an acute.
		This includes composite characters that are canonical equivalents to a combining character sequence of an alphabetic base character plus one or more combining characters: letter digraphs; contextual variant of alphabetic characters; ligatures of alphabetic characters; contextual variants of ligatures; modifier letters; letterlike symbols that are compatibility equivalents of single alphabetic letters; and miscellaneous letter elements.
	www.faqs.org /rfcs/rfc3536.html (7462 words)

	Glossary
		A character sequence consisting of either a base character followed by a sequence of one or more combining characters, or a sequence of one or more combining characters.
		The diaeresis is not distinguished from the umlaut in the Unicode character encoding.
		A combining character that is not a nonspacing mark.
	www.unicode.org /glossary (7489 words)

	unicode (Linux Reviews) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For example, the German character Umlaut-A ("Latin capital letter A with diaeresis") can either be represented by the precomposed UCS code 0x00c4, or alternatively as the combination of a normal "Latin capital letter A" followed by a "combining diaeresis": 0x0041 0x0308.
		Combining characters are essential for instance for encoding the Thai script or for mathematical typesetting and users of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
		Combining characters and Hangul Jamo (a variant encoding of the Korean script, where a Hangul syllable glyph is coded as a triplet or pair of vovel/consonant codes) are not supported.
	linuxreviews.org /man/unicode/index.html.en (1346 words)

	UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ
		Accented characters that have their own code position, but could also be represented as a pair of another character followed by a combining character, are known as precomposed characters.
		The combining character mechanism allows to add accents and other diacritical marks to any character, which is especially important for scientific notations such as mathematical formulas and the International Phonetic Alphabet, where any possible combination of a base character and one or several diacritical marks could be needed.
		Combining characters and Hangul Jamo characters (a special, more complicated encoding of the Korean script, where Hangul syllables are coded as two or three subcharacters) are not supported.
	ijstokes.paunix.org /unicode/unicode.html (8483 words)

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		Indication of Unicode combining characters (visible indication and character information) now refers to the most recent Unicode version, not the actual terminal capabilities; a combining character not handled as such by the terminal will be highlighted also in combined display mode.
		Combining characters in CJK encodings are now supported (both JIS encodings and GB18030), in either UTF-8 or CJK terminal mode.
		CJK character codes that do not map to Unicode are now displayed with the indication '?' with cyan background to avoid screen garbage by invalid character codes, unless overridden by the +C option for transparent display of CJK encoded characters.
	towo.net /mined/changes.html (12639 words)

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		Since these characters aren't part of the ASCII character set, it can be difficult to write code that uses these characters without looking up Unicode values or using a Unicode editor and converting to a known character set.
		This means that it will take a letter such as 'a' (Unicode character 0097) and a combining mark, such as grave accent (Unicode character 0300), and create a single character that is the combination of the two marks.
		Not all characters can be mapped, and there are some character combinations that don't work in COMPOSE because the Unicode consortium hasn't defined them at the level used by the Oracle database.
	builder.com.com /5102-6388-5319617.html (620 words)

	FAQ - Characters, Combining Marks
		Graphemes are not necessarily combining character sequences, and combining character sequences are not necessarily graphemes.
		Even if the combination is not available in a particular font, it is unambiguous and Unicode conformant systems should transmit and retain the sequence without distortion, and it may be processed programmatically.
		The presence of a combining grapheme joiner in the midst of a combining character sequence does not interrupt the combining character sequence.
	www.unicode.org /faq/char_combmark.html (2686 words)

	HERO GAMES Discussion Boards - Advice needed: Multi->One Character.
		Thus if one of the combining characters is missing or unconscious, the other form can't be achieved.
		If a single character wanted to build this construct I think it would be (highly) abusive to allow one player to control several characters that could share the cost of combining into a single powerful form, especially when there is a solid game mechanic to accomplish this (a MP with duplication and multiform).
		Base character has duplication (4 additional forms, must recombine when multiform activated) and a SMALL multiform to a powerful character - so it obviously won't work as you don't have the points - and a small aid to own Multiform.
	www.herogames.com /forums/printthread.php?t=24479 (1719 words)

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		character encoding form A character encoding form is a mapping from a character set definition to the actual code units used to represent the data.
		"18" is the number of characters between the "i" and the "n" in "internationalization", and "10" is the number of characters between the "l" and the "n" in "localization".
		Combining characters modify the display of the character (or, in some cases, characters) that precede them.
	www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc3536.txt (7547 words)

	Coded Character Sets - MARC-8
		The "Basic Latin" component of this default character set is the 128-character ASCII that we examined in the introduction.
		These combining characters (hex code points E0-FE) represent diacritics and must be used in combination with a base character.
		In MARC-8 there is no single code point to represent that character, instead it is represented by the code point for a tilde (hex "E4"), the combining character, followed by the code point for the small letter "n" (hex "6E"), the base character.
	rocky.uta.edu /doran/charsets/marc.html (972 words)

	Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web (version 0.9.7)
		Nearly all the combinations of character and diacritical mark encountered in languages using the Latin script were included in the first version of the Unicode standard, Unicode 1.0 - for example, the e with acute accent, the c with hacek, and the c with cedilla.
		And because there are issues with the implementation of combining diacriticals in the Linux operating systems, one must choose which audience to lose: those who have Linux and have serious difficulties reading the combining diacriticals, or those who chose not to download one of the free fonts that can read precomposed characters.
		Combining diacriticals decompose characters to their basic divisible components, making the character, rather than the glyph, to be the basic unit of typography.
	www.stoa.org /unicode/normalization.html (1985 words)

	Efficient implementation of character normalization checking for XML 1.1
		between high and low surrogate, or between base and combining character or between two combining characters).
		The list of recombinations is calculated so that any combining character that would lead to a change (full combination, recombination so that the combining character gets combined in but another combining character is separated, complete decomposition,...) is listed.
		Combine the code with some other code, e.g.
	www.w3.org /2003/06/xml1.1test (583 words)

	y1828vds
		'encl' - "enclosing"; the glyph image encloses the glyph of the base character.
		The most common set position of a glyph need not include a set position component to the name.
		Note: isolate behavior (a glyph form not altered by contextural behavior) does not use a qualifier
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/y1828vds.htm (298 words)

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