Meanings
precomposed1
- not comparableComposed in advance.
- not comparablecomputingDescribing a character that can also be represented an equivalent string of other characters (typically a letter and a diacritical mark).
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For example, the middle letter of naïve could be represented using the combining character approach by U+0069 U+0308, or as a single, precomposed unit using the already prepared character U+00EF. Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.
2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 383
precomposed2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of precompose
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