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== Definition and classification ==

When multiple languages make use of the same script, there are frequently some differences, particularly in diacritics and other marks. For example, Swedish and English both use the Latin script. However, [[Swedish alphabet|Swedish]] includes the character ''[[å]]'' (sometimes called a Swedish ''O''), while English has no such character. Nor does English make use of the diacritic ''[[ringRing (diacritic)#Overring|combining circlering above]]'' for any character. In general, the languages sharing the same scripts share many of the same characters. Despite these peripheral differences in the Swedish and English writing systems, they are said to use the same Latin script. Thus, the Unicode abstraction of scripts is a basic organizing technique. The differences among different alphabets or writing systems remain and are supported through Unicode’s flexible scripts, combining marks and collation algorithms.

=== Script versus writing system ===