Unicode Explained

use the combining acute accent U+0301 after a vowel letter and try to use software that

can handle this. Unfortunately, the result is often typographically poor, though there

is more and more software that implements combining diacritic marks well.

When Cyrillic text is transliterated into a Latin script, confusion is often caused by

varying transliteration systems. Without knowing the transliteration method, it is im-

possible to know the original Cyrillic spelling (and hence pronunciation).

Armenian and Georgian Scripts

Characters needed for writing the Armenian and Georgian languages, spoken in the

Caucasus, have been included into separate blocks named according to the languages.

The languages have relatively small sets of letters, so they can each also be written using

an 8-bit encoding.

Modern Georgian makes no case distinction for letters. (Old Georgian had separate

upper- and lowercase, though.) In fact, such a situation is common in the writing sys-

tems of the world, though most European scripts are an exception. It is also older; the

case distinction was invented in medieval Europe.

Diacritic Marks

Diacritic marks are small signs added to letters or other characters, such an acute accent

added to letter “e” to produce é or a tilde added to “a” to produce ã. Usually the mark

is placed above the letter, but it could also appear below the letter, as in ç, or in another

position. If your ...