

So rather than saying that we'll have a separate character for every possible configuration of marks, the computer people who designed the way that text works on computers decided that they'll just have the "base" characters like a, b, c, d, etc.


Well, there are a tonne of languages that use these types of markings, and some languages have all sorts of rules with multiple marks per character, so a single character could have a dozen different forms. How does this hacked text stuff work? Well, you know how some languages have the marks above some characters? Like how "cliché" has a mark above the "e".
