Unicode compatibility characters: Difference between revisions

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In addition, several scripts{{which|date=January 2012}} 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 — similar to a hybrid between a diacritic and a letter{{Original research inline|date=January 2012}}<!-- are they [[Spacing modifier character]]s or what? there is no example, so we should guess author's intentions. --> — 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)