Digraph

Digraph

A combination of characters that is written separately but forms a single lexical unit—for example, the Danish “aa” and the Spanish “ch” and “ll”.

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Industry/Domain: Software; Translation & localization
Category: Internationalization (I18N)
Company: Microsoft
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