Precomposed
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of precompose form-of, participle, past
- 1 Composed in advance. not-comparable
- 2 Describing a character that can also be represented an equivalent string of other characters (typically a letter and a diacritical mark). not-comparable
"For example, the middle letter of naïve could be represented using the combining character approach by U+0069 U+0308, or as a single, precomposed unit using the already prepared character U+00EF. Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences."
Example
More examples"For example, the middle letter of naïve could be represented using the combining character approach by U+0069 U+0308, or as a single, precomposed unit using the already prepared character U+00EF. Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences."
Etymology
From pre- + composed.
From precompose + -ed.
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