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What constitutes a character varies between character encodings. For example, for letters with diacritics, there are two distinct approaches that can be taken to encode them. They can be encoded either as a single unified character (known as a precomposed character), or as separate characters that combine into a single glyph. The former simplifies the text handling system, but the latter allows any letter/diacritic combination