Meaning of precomposed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Composed in advance.
   not-comparable
2. Describing a character that can also be represented an equivalent string of other characters (typically a letter and a diacritical mark).
   not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

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