Sounds unique to Eastern European languages were once written with two letter combination called "digraphs." In ''De Ortographia Bohemica'' (1412), Jan Hus proposed the use of diacritics in place of digraphs.
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Sounds unique to Eastern European languages were once written with two letter combination called "digraphs." In ''De Ortographia Bohemica'' (1412), Jan Hus proposed the use of diacritics in place of digraphs. Eight-bit character encoding, introduced in the 1980s, allows dozens of characters with diacritics to be rendered on computer and transmitted electronically. Unicode, the current encoding standard, allows for an almost unlimited character set.
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Eight-bit character encoding, introduced in the 1980s, allows dozens of characters with diacritics to be rendered on computer and transmitted electronically. Unicode, the current encoding standard, allows for an almost unlimited character set.