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Unicode compatibility characters

Characters encoded solely to maintain round-trip convertibility with other standards

In Unicode and the Universal Character Set (UCS), a compatibility character is a character that is encoded solely to maintain round-trip convertibility with other, often older standards. According to the Unicode Glossary:

  • Characters corresponding to multiple alternate glyph forms and precomposed diacritics to support software and font implementations that do not include…
  • Characters included from other character sets or otherwise added to the UCS that constitute rich text rather than the plain text goals of Unicode.
  • Some other characters that are semantically distinct, but visually similar.
  • Compose diacritic marked graphemes from letter characters and one or more separate combining diacritic marks.

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    Has a code block.
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    Shows a fraction.
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    Has the multiple issues box.
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    Has a quote box.
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    1,200+ words of prose. · 1,817 words
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    Rated C.
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