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The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritics, such as the acute ó , grave ò , and circumflex ô (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above or below a letter or in some other position such as within the letter or ...
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...
Tilde (diacritic) Wave dash Double tilde ̃: Tilde (diacritic) Circumflex, Grave: Combining Diacritical Marks, Diacritic ™ Trademark symbol: Registered trade mark _ Underscore | Vertical bar: also known as a 'pipe' / Virgule: Slash: Virgule (disambiguation)
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked its readers whether diacritical marks are necessary for newspaper/online stories, with over 80% responding that they are. [12] On Wikipedia, redirects are created from all common spellings as standard practice. The diacritical marks are also removed for sorting and ignored by search engines.
Also, if for a noun the major dictionaries (Webster's; OED;...) concur that it is always written with a diacritic, the Wikipedia content page is always at the version with diacritic (e.g. "cliché"). In more ambiguous cases, a standard letter (a-z/A-Z) with a diacritic is acceptable in an article title if all of the following conditions are met:
Compound diacritics are possible, for example U+01DA ǚ LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS AND CARON, used as a tonal marks for Hanyu Pinyin, which uses both a two dots diacritic with a caron diacritic. Conversely, when the letter to be accented is an i , the diacritic replaces the tittle, thus: ï .
Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters. It also contains the character " Combining Grapheme Joiner ", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single grapheme in a given context.
The diaeresis diacritic indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a digraph and be pronounced as one sound, are instead to be read as separate vowels in two syllables. For example, in the spelling "coöperate", the diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables co-op-er-ate , not three, *coop-er-ate .