precomposed

English

Etymology 1

From pre- +‎ composed.

Adjective

precomposed (not comparable)

1. Composed in advance.
2. (computing) Describing a character that can also be represented an equivalent string of other characters (typically a letter and a diacritical mark).
   • 2009, Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital Library, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 383:

     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.

Further reading

• precomposed character on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From precompose +‎ -ed.

Verb

precomposed

1. simple past and past participle of precompose