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===Character duplication===
{{Main|Duplicate characters in Unicode}}
For compatibility or other reasons, Unicode sometimes assigns two different code points to entities that are essentially the same character. For example, the characterletter "Å"A canwith bea encoded[[ring as U+00C5 (standard namediacritic]] above"LATIN CAPITALis LETTERencoded Aas WITH RING ABOVE",{{unichar|00C5}} (a letter of the [[alphabet]] in [[Swedish language|Swedish]] and several other [[language]]s) or as U+{{unichar|212B ("ANGSTROM SIGN")}}. Yet the symbol for [[angstrom]] is defined to be that Swedish letter, and most other symbols that are letters (likesuch "as {{angbr|V"}} for [[volt]]) do not have a separate code point for each usage. In general, the code points of truly identical characters (which can be rendered in the same way in Unicode fonts) are defined to be canonically equivalent.
 
===Combining and precomposed characters===