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Computer programmers use the tilde in various ways and sometimes call the symbol (as opposed to the diacritic) a squiggle, squiggly, swiggle, or twiddle. According to the Jargon File , other synonyms sometimes used in programming include not , approx , wiggle , enyay (after eñe ) and (humorously) sqiggle / ˈ s k ɪ ɡ əl / .
Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
Due to character encoding confusion, the letters can be seen on many incorrectly coded Hungarian web pages, representing Ő/ő (letter O with double acute accent).This can happen due to said characters sharing a code point in the ISO 8859-1 and 8859-2 character sets, as well as the Windows-1252 and Windows-1250 character sets, and the web site designer forgetting to set the correct code page.
In logic, a set of symbols is commonly used to express logical representation. The following table lists many common symbols, together with their name, how they should be read out loud, and the related field of mathematics.
In Portuguese, it represents a nasal near-open central vowel ([ɐ̃]), though it varies from near-open to mid-central vowel according to dialect. It also appears as a part of the diphthongs ãe, pronounced as /ɐ̃j̃/, and ão, pronounced as /ɐ̃w̃/.
and maybe some odd dots and lines above, below, or inside characters – Hebrew; פֿ; dots/lines below letters appearing only with א,י, and ו – Yiddish; no dots or lines around the letters, and more than a few words end with א (i.e., they have it at the leftmost position) – Aramaic; Ladino; 漢字文化圈 – Some East Asian Languages
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bōsen (棒線, "bar line") Indicates a lengthened vowel sound. Often used with katakana. The direction of writing depends on the direction of text. ゛ 212B: 1-1-11: 309B (standalone), 3099 : dakuten (濁点, "voiced point") nigori (濁り, "voiced") ten-ten (点々, "dots") Used with both hiragana and katakana to indicate a voiced sound.