combining mark

English

Noun

combining mark (plural combining marks)

1. (Unicode) Synonym of combining character
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     Unicode allows more than one way of encoding the same character. The string “é”, for example, can be encoded as the single Unicode character \u00E9 or as a regular ASCII e followed by the acute accent combining mark \u0301.