Unicode compatibility characters: Difference between revisions

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In addition, several scripts use glyph position such as superscripts and subscripts to differentiate semantics. In these cases subscripts and superscripts are not merely rich text, but constitute a distinct character in the writing system (130 total).
 
* 112 characters representing abstract phonemes from phonetic alphabets such as the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] use such positional glyphs to represent semantic differences (U+1D2C – U+1D6A, U+1D78, U+1D9B – U+1DBF, U+02B0 – U+02B8, U+02E0 – U+02E4)
* 14 characters from the [[Kanbun]] block (U+3192 – U+319F)
* 1 character from the [[Tifinagh]] script: Tifinagh Modifier Letter Labialization Mark (ⵯ U+2D6F)
* 1 character from the [[Georgian script]]: Modifier Letter Georgian Nar (ჼ U+10FC)
* masculine ([[º|U+00BA]]) and feminine ([[ª|U+00AA]]) ordinal indicators included in the [[Latin-1 supplementSupplement]]{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} block
 
Finally, Unicode designates Roman numerals as compatibility equivalence to the Latin letters that share the same glyphs.{{Citation needed|date=November 2015}}