combining character
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A character that modifies the appearance of other characters (which are called base characters).
- You can display c with macron (c̄) by merging the combining character macron with the letter c.
- Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 383:
- Related terms
- grapheme cluster