Latin script in Unicode

<p>Over a thousand characters from the <a href="/facts/Latin_script/7EWeJjUV">Latin script</a> are encoded in the <a href="/facts/Unicode_Standard/DDu3MfPV">Unicode Standard</a>, grouped in several basic and extended Latin <a href="/facts/Unicode_block/0RrzJWhE">blocks</a>. The extended ranges contain mainly <a href="/facts/Precomposed_character/LhKrFQ4Y">precomposed</a> letters plus diacritics that are equivalently encoded with <a href="/facts/Combining_diacritics/nH8SFbIL">combining diacritics</a>, as well as some ligatures and distinct letters, used for example in the orthographies of various African languages (including <a href="/facts/Click_consonant/qdv9xIKR">click</a> symbols in Latin Extended-B) and the <a href="/facts/Vietnamese_alphabet/NyAkHElo">Vietnamese alphabet</a> (Latin Extended Additional). Latin Extended-C contains additions for <a href="/facts/Uighur_language/RdlQY3hQ">Uighur</a> and the <a href="/facts/Claudian_letters/HNuURa4C">Claudian letters</a>. Latin Extended-D comprises characters that are mostly of interest to medievalists.  Latin Extended-E mostly comprises characters used for German dialectology (<a href="/facts/Teuthonista/J3nI1Jhh">Teuthonista</a>). Latin Extended-F and -G contain characters for <a href="/facts/Phonetic_transcription/bfbFHWur">phonetic transcription</a>.
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Latin script in Unicode