Translingual
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Diacritical mark
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◌̷
- (phonetics, dated) A common ad hoc remedy for the lack of type for phonetic symbols on manual typewriters. A letter with the approximate sound would be typed, then the writer would hit backspace and overstrike a solidus on the letter.
- Products of an overstruck solidus include: b̸ (IPA β), c̸ (t͡s), d̸ (ð), g̸ (ɣ), p̸ (ɸ), t̸ (θ), w̸ (ɰ), Luiseño s̸ and the Mazahua vowel letters a̸ e̸ o̸ u̸. It also works with the equals sign = for ≠ (IPA ǂ) and with zero for the null sign 0̸.
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Unicode provides two characters differing only in size, for combining with upper-case or tall and with lower-case or short letters. (The long diacritic was used above; the same letters with the short diacritic are a̷ b̷ c̷ d̷ e̷ g̷ o̷ p̷ s̷ t̷ u̷ w̷ =̷ 0̷, as well as l̷.) However, font support is poor, and Unicode prefers to encode the resulting letters individually, if there is sufficient need, rather than to rely on the diacritics.
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