Unicode compatibility characters: Difference between revisions

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{{original research|date=July 2008}}

In [[Unicode]] and the [[Universal Character Set|UCS]], a '''compatibility character''' is a character that is encoded solely to maintain round trip convertabilityconvertibility with other, often older, standards.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chapter 2.3: Compatibility characters|url=http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ch02.pdf#G11062|work=The Unicode Standard 6.0.0}}</ref> As the Unicode Glossary says:

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Alphabetic Presentation Forms (1)

# Hebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika (U+FB1E): ﬞ. This is a glyph variant of Hebrew Point [[Rafe (diacritic)|Rafe]] (U+05BF): ֿ , though Unicode provides no compatibility mapping.

Arabic Presentation Forms (4)