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| | Characters, glyphs, and elements |
 | | A script may be analyzed into a minimal set of elements (vowels, consonants, etc.), such that the linguistic meaning of any text using the script is expressible in terms of these elements. |
 | | For example, in older English spelling the vowels e, æ are contrasting elements of Latin script, but for recent English spelling e, æ are equivalent orthography and æ is not needed as an element. |
 | | In Indic scripts, most glyphs of consonant clusters correspond to several combined Unicode characters, and not to a separate Unicode character. |
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