Glossary
abstract character repertoire
a set of characters that are used in a writing system to be encoded. Types of characters include letters of the alphabet, digits, and logographs. Examples of abstract character repertoires are Western European alphabets and the Japanese kanji and kana syllabaries.
accent mark
an auxiliary glyph that is combined with a letter to alter the pronunciation of the letter. For example, the character á results from combining the letter a with the acute accent (´). The character ñ is formed from the letter n with the tilde (~).
accented character
a type of character that is modified by the addition of an accent ...
