combining character

English

у combined with breve gives ў.

Noun

combining character (plural combining characters)

1. (computing) A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters).

   Synonym: combining mark

   You can display c with macron (c̄) by merging the combining character macron with the letter c.

   • 2009, Ian H. Witten; David Bainbridge; David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, second edition, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 383:

     Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.

See also

• grapheme cluster