Script (Unicode): Difference between revisions

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Unicode assigns every character in the [[UCS]] to a single script only. However, many characters — those that are not part of a formal natural language writing system or are unified across many writing systems (e.g. most symbols including music notation, currency signs, etc., as well as some numerals and many punctuation marks) — may be used in more than one script. In these cases Unicode defines them as belonging to the '''common''' script.

In addition, many diacritics and non-spacing combining characters may be applied to characters from more than one script, and in these cases Unicode assigns them to the '''inherited''' script, which means that they have the same script class as the base character with which they combine, and so in different contexts they may be treated as belonging to different scripts. For example, U+0308 Combining Diaeresis may combine with either U+0065 latinLatin Small Letter E (ë) or U+0435 Cyrillic Small Letter IE (ё), and in the former case it inherits the Latin script of the preceding base character whereas in the latter case it inherits the Cyrillic script of the preceding base character.

== Character categories within scripts ==