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(majuscule: Ș, minuscule: ș)
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S-comma is a letter which is part of the Romanian alphabet, used to represent the sound /ʃ/, the voiceless postalveolar fricative (like sh in shoe)
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History
S “half moon” proposed as a letter in the Buda Lexicon.
S-cedilla, T-cedilla and a cedilla illustrated with a comma in Ortografia limbei române published by the Romanian Academy in 1895.
The letter was proposed in the Buda Lexicon, a book published in 1825, which included two texts by Petru Maior, Orthographia romana sive latino-valachica una cum clavi and Dialogu pentru inceputul linbei române, introducing ș for /ʃ/ and ț for /ts/
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Unicode support
S-comma was not initially supported in early Unicode versions, nor in the predecessors like ISO/IEC 8859-2 and Windows-1250. Instead, Ş (S-cedilla), a character available since Unicode 1.1.0 (1993), was used for digital texts written in Romanian. In some contexts, like with low-resolution screens and printouts, the visual distinction between ș and ş is minimal. In 1999, at the request of the Romanian Standardization Association[citation needed], S-comma was introduced in Unicode 3.0. Nevertheless, encoding for the S-comma was not supported in retail versions of Microsoft Windows XP, but a later European Union Expansion Font Update provided the feature. While digital accessibility to S-comma has since improved, both characters continue to be used interchangeably in various contexts like publishing.
The letter is part of Unicode’s Latin Extended-B range, under “Additions for Romanian”, titled as “Latin capital letter S with comma below” (U+0218) and “Latin small letter s with comma below” (U+0219).[2] In HTML, these can be encoded by Ș and ș, respectively.
Use of the comma with the letter S[edit]
Șș
S-comma
Diacritics in Latin & Greek
accent
acute´
double acute˝
grave`
double grave ̏
circumflexˆ
caron, háčekˇ
breve˘
inverted breve ̑
cedilla¸
diaeresis, umlaut¨
dot·
palatal hook ̡
retroflex hook ̢
hook above, dấu hỏi ̉
horn ̛
iota subscript ͅ
macronˉ
ogonek, nosinė˛
perispomene ͂
overring˚
underring˳
rough breathing῾
smooth breathing᾿
Marks sometimes used as diacritics
apostrophe’
bar◌̸
colon:
comma,
full stop/period.
hyphen˗
prime′
tilde~
Diacritical marks in other scripts
Arabic diacritics
Early Cyrillic diacritics
kamora ҄
pokrytie ҇
titlo ҃
Hebrew diacritics
Indic diacritics
anusvaraं ং ଂ ം
avagrahaऽ ঽ ଽ ఽ ഽ ྅
chandrabinduँ ఁ ྃ
nuqta़
virama् ് ్ ್ ් ်
visargaः ঃ ଃ ஃ
Gurmukhī diacritics
Khmer diacritics
Thai diacritics
IPA diacritics
Japanese kana diacritics
dakuten ﾞ
handakuten ﾟ
Syriac diacritics
Related
Dotted circle◌
Punctuation marks
Logic symbols
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Romanian
The Romanian letter Ș/ș (S with comma) represents the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ (as in “show”). On outdated systems which do not support the glyph, the symbol Ş/ş (S with cedilla) is used. Example word: Timișoara.
Character encoding[edit]
Character information
Preview Ș ș
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
Encodings decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 536 U+0218 537 U+0219
UTF-8 200 152 C8 98 200 153 C8 99
Numeric character reference Ș Ș ș ș
See also[edit]
Ş (S-cedilla)
Š
Ț (T-comma)
D-comma
References[edit]
^ Marinella Lörinczi Angioni, “Coscienza nazionale romanza e ortografia: il romeno tra alfabeto cirillico e alfabeto latino “, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 5, La scrittura: funzioni e ideologie. (Apr., 1982), pp. 75–85.
^ Unicode code charts. Latin Extended-B: Range 0180–024F
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/S-comma
S-comma
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Appearance of comma (upper row) and cedilla (lower row) in the Times New Roman font.
Note that the cedilla is placed higher than the comma.
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