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Circumflex accent: U+005F _ Low line: U+0060 ` Grave accent: Lowercase Latin alphabet U+0061 a Latin Small Letter A: U+0062 b Latin Small Letter B: U+0063 c Latin Small Letter C: U+0064 d Latin Small Letter D: U+0065 e Latin Small Letter E: U+0066 f Latin Small Letter F: U+0067 g Latin Small Letter G: U+0068 h Latin Small Letter H: U+0069 i ...
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
The circumflex first appeared in written French in the 16th century. It was borrowed from Ancient Greek, and combines the acute accent and the grave accent.Grammarian Jacques Dubois (known as Sylvius) is the first writer known to have used the Greek symbol in his writing (although he wrote in Latin).
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In Italian the circumflex accent is an optional accent. While the accent itself has many uses, with the letter "i" it is only used while forming the plural of male nouns ending in -io in order to minimize both ambiguity and the stressing of the wrong syllable: principio /prinˈtʃipjo/ (principle) has the plural principî /prinˈtʃipi/, and principe /ˈprintʃipe/ (prince) has principi ...
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...
On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.
Firmin-Didot surmised that a new character could be added to French orthography. A letter with the same description, T-cedilla (majuscule: Ţ, minuscule: ţ), is used in Gagauz. A similar letter, the T-comma (majuscule: Ț, minuscule: ț), exists in Romanian, but it has a comma accent, not a cedilla.