A glyphe is a chart (among a possible infinity) of a typographical sign, in other words of a character (glyphe of character) or of a accent (glyphe of accent). A special character can thus be created by adding a glyphe accent to a glyphe of character. The computer software has access to the drawing of this glyphe via a font face or more precisely, of a cast iron: the layout of the glyphe is generally defined there by a whole of curved points or of Bézier.

The place of a glyphe in a cast iron is determined by the coding characters in the cast iron. Thus, in a cast iron encodée in ASCII or ISO 8859-1, the glyphe of the character “ has ” will be into 97 position.

See too

• Character
• Hiéroglyphe

External bonds

• Unicode Technical Carryforward #17 chapter " Characters vs Glyphs"