The dotted circle, in

Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...

, is a typographic character used to illustrate the effect of a combining mark, such as a

diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacriti ...

mark. In

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, it is possible to use the key combination to produce the character.

Illustration

A Unicode

combining mark In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents). Unicode also ...

combines with a preceding character. When used as stand-alone, it would combine unintentionally with a preceding character (possibly a space): * Diacritic ̒ used alone between regular spaces * Diacritic ◌̒ used after a character Using the generic dotted circle character also shows the relative positioning of the diacritic.

External links

Dotted circle on fileformat.info

References

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