a written symbol which is structurally dependent upon another symbol; that is, a symbol that does not occur independently, but always occurs with and is visually positioned in relation to another character, usually above or below Diacritics are also sometimes referred to as accents For example, acute, grave, circumflex, etc
That separates or distinguishes; applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, ā, ă, ä, ō, &obreve;, etc
(1) a mark applied or attached to a symbol in order to create a new symbol that represents an entirely new value; (2) a mark applied to a symbol irrespective of whether it changes the value of that symbol In the latter case, the diacritic usually represents an independent value, e g , an accent, tone, or some other linguistic information Also called diacritical mark, or diacritical See also non-spacing mark and combining mark
Refers to a character or symbol which has no standard keyboard equivalent, such as â, æ, ç, etc Because they cannot be represented using a standard keyboard, diacritics are typically stripped from source data during the database build process The pippin utility program is responsible for stripping/substituting diacritics during the database build process The diacritics substitution tables pippin uses to process diacritics can be customized
(1) A mark applied or attached to a symbol to create a new symbol that represents a modified or new value (2) A mark applied to a symbol irrespective of whether it changes the value of that symbol In the latter case, the diacritic usually represents an independent value (for example, an accent, tone, or some other linguistic information) Also called diacritical mark or diacritical (See also combining character and nonspacing mark )
a mark placed over, under, or through a letter in some languages, to show that the letter should be pronounced differently from the same letter without a mark (diakritikos, from krinein )