Editing Circumflex (section)

== Unicode <span class="anchor" id="Letters with circumflex"></span> <span class="anchor" id="Circumflex in digital character sets"></span><span class="anchor" id="Combining circumflex accent"></span>==
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Unicode encodes a number of cases of "letter with circumflex" as [[precomposed character]]s and these are displayed below.  In addition, many more symbols may be composed using the [[combining character]] facility ({{unichar|0302|Combining circumflex accent|cwith=◌|nlink=combining character}} and {{unichar|032D|cwith=◌|nlink=combining character}}) that may be used with any letter or other diacritic to create a customised symbol but this does not mean that the result has any real-world application and thus are not shown in the table. <!-- AND PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO ADD THEM -->
{{Letters with diacritic/header}}<!--
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-->[[Â |Â{{NNBSP}}â]]
| [[Ĉ |Ĉ{{NNBSP}}ĉ]]
| [[Ê |Ê{{NNBSP}}ê]]
| [[Ĝ |Ĝ{{NNBSP}}ĝ]]
| [[Ĥ |Ĥ{{NNBSP}}ĥ]]
| [[Î |Î{{NNBSP}}î]]
| [[Ĵ |Ĵ{{NNBSP}}ĵ]]
| [[Ô |Ô{{NNBSP}}ô]]
| [[Ố |Ố{{NNBSP}}ố]]
| [[Ồ |Ồ{{NNBSP}}ồ]]
| [[Ổ |Ổ{{NNBSP}}ổ]]
| [[Ỗ |Ỗ{{NNBSP}}ỗ]]
| [[Ộ |Ộ{{NNBSP}}ộ]]
| [[Ŝ |Ŝ{{NNBSP}}ŝ]]
| [[Û |Û{{NNBSP}}û]]
| [[Ŵ |Ŵ{{NNBSP}}ŵ]]
| [[X̂ |X̂{{NNBSP}}x̂]]
| [[Ŷ |Ŷ{{NNBSP}}ŷ]]
| [[Ẑ |Ẑ{{NNBSP}}ẑ]]
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The [[Greek diacritics#Accents|Greek diacritic]] {{langx|grc|περισπωμένη|perispōménē|twisted around|label=none}}, is encoded as {{unichar|342|COMBINING GREEK PERISPOMENI}}.  In distinction to the angled Latin circumflex, the Greek circumflex is printed in the form of either a [[tilde]] (◌̃) or an inverted [[breve]] (◌̑).

===Freestanding circumflex <span class="anchor" id="Freestanding"></span>===
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There is a similar but larger character, {{unichar|005E|circumflex accent|html=}}, which was originally intended to emulate the typewriter's [[dead key]] function using backspace and overtype. Nowadays, this glyph is more often called a [[caret]] instead (though the term has a long-standing meaning as a [[proofreading|proofreader's]] mark, with [[Caret (proofreading)|its own codepoints]] in Unicode). It is, however, unsuitable for use as a diacritic on modern computer systems, as it is a spacing character. Two other spacing circumflex characters in Unicode are the smaller [[modifier letter]]s {{unichar|02C6|modifier letter circumflex accent|use=IPA}} and {{unichar|a788|modifier letter low circumflex accent|use=IPA}}, mainly used in [[Phonetics|phonetic]] notations or as a sample of the diacritic in isolation.

===Typing the circumflex accent===
[[File:KB France.svg|thumb|upright 1.5|French [[AZERTY]] layout with 'combining circumflex' as a [[dead key]] (beside {{keycap|P}})]]

In countries where the local language(s) routinely include letters with a circumflex, local keyboards are typically engraved with those symbols.

For users with other keyboards, see [[QWERTY#Multilingual variants]] and [[Unicode input]].