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2 unusual facts about diacritic


German keyboard layout

Therefore, it contains several additional diacritical marks and punctuation characters, including the full set of German, English, and French style quotation marks in addition to the typographic apostrophe, the prime, the double prime, and the ʻokina.

Oceano, California

"Océano" (with accent) is the Spanish word for "ocean", but the toponymic name is written without it.


Archie Hind

Originally titled Für Sadie, because Hind was influenced by Beethoven's piece Für Elise, but the umlaut was later dropped to reflect Glasgow dialect, the story tells of Sadie, a housewife in the Parkhead district of Glasgow who rediscovers her childhood love for the piano as a means of escaping her middle-aged misery.

Homoglyph

Commonly, this is implemented by prohibiting names which mix character sets from multiple languages (toys-Я-us.org would be invalid, but wíkipedia.org and wikipedia.org still exist as different websites); Canada's .ca registry goes one step further by requiring names which differ only in diacritics have the same owner and same registrar.

Jakaltek language

Eastern Jacaltec is one of the few languages besides the Malagasy language of Madagascar to make use of an n-trema character in its alphabet.

Lām with bar

ݪ (Unicode name: Arabic Letter Lam With Bar) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from lām (ل) with the addition of a bar.

Raphé

Rafe, a diacritic ֿ a short horizontal overbar placed above certain letters to indicate that they are to be pronounced as fricatives

Sīn with four dots above

ݜ (Unicode name: Arabic Letter Seen With Four Dots Above) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from sīn (ﺱ) with the addition of four dots or two horizontal lines above the letter.


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