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'''T-comma''' ({{lang|ro|majuscule: '''Ț''', minuscule: '''ț'''}}) is a letter which consists of a t with a [[Comma#Diacritical usage|diacritical comma]] underneath it, and is distinct from [[Ţ|t-cedilla]]. It is part of the [[Romanian alphabet]], used to represent the [[Romanian language]] sound {{IPA|/t͡s/}}, the [[voiceless alveolar affricate]] (like ''ts''the letter C in ''bolts'').Slavic Itlanguages isthat writtenuse asthe theLatin alphabet). The letter [[T]]is withalso a smallpart of the Finno-Ugric [[CommaLivonian (punctuation)|commalanguage]] belowalphabet, and it has bothrepresenting the lower-case{{IPA|/c/}} (U+021B)sound.<ref>{{cite andweb the|last=Everson upper|first=Michael |date=2001-case11-12 variants|title=Livonian (U+021A)|url=http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/livonian.pdf It|accessdate=2015-06-01 is|work=The also a partAlphabets of the [[Livonian language#Alphabet|Livonian alphabet]].Europe}}</ref>

This letter was not part of the early [[Unicode]] versions, which is why [[Ţ]] ([[T]]-[[cedillacomma]], availablewas fromnot versionpart 1.1.0,of Juneearly 1993) is often used in digital texts in Romanian. T-[[Comma (punctuation)|commaUnicode]] versions; it was introduced only in Unicode 3.0.0 (September 1999) at the request of the Romanian national standardization body. Thus, butsome manylegacy computers today stillsystems do not have [[font]]s compatible with it{{cn|date=April 2014}}; computersfor withexample, [[Microsoft]] [[operating system]]'s older than [[Windows XP]] dorequires not have compatible fonts. Windows XP's default fonts do not support this letter out of the box, but it is possible to installinstalling the European Union Expansion Font Update,.<ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0ec6f335-c3de-44c5-a13d-a1e7cea5ddea&DisplayLang=en European Union Expansion Font Update]</ref> which adds support for this letter. That is why many Romanian texts still use T-cedilla (or even T), despite the recommendation to migrate from cedilla to comma. Full support of this letter has been available on [[Macintosh]] computer since [[Mac OS X]] and on [[Personal computer|PC]] since [[Windows Vista]]. Although accessibility issues are a concern only on legacy systems, because of inertia or ignorance, or both, some newly-produced Romanian texts still use [[Ţ]] ([[T]]-[[cedilla]], available from Unicode version 1.1.0, June 1993).

The letter is placed in Unicode in the [[Latin Extended-B]] range, under "Additions for Romanian", as the "Latin capital letter T with comma below" (U+021A) and "Latin small letter t with comma below" (U+021B).<ref>Unicode code charts. [httphttps://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf Latin Extended-B: Range 0180–024F]</ref> In HTML these can be encoded by <code>&amp;#x021a;</code> and <code>&amp;#x021b;</code>, respectively.

[[File:Virguliţa şi sedila.svg|thumb|180px|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.|left]]

In Windows XP, most of the fonts including the Arial Unicode MS render T-cedilla as T-comma because T-cedilla iswas not believed to be used in any language. (It is in fact used, but in very few languages. T with Cedilla exists as part of the [[General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages]], in some [[Gagauz language|Gagauz]] orthographies, in [[Berber Latin alphabet#Kabyle-Berber local usages|local spelling usages]] for the [[Kabyle language]], and possibly elsewhere.) Technically, this is incorrect as a mismatching glyph is associated with a certain character code. Therefore, text written using S-cedilla and T-cedilla can often be seenlook as if it had been written using S-comma and T-comma. However, in order to correctly encode and render both [[S-comma]] and T-comma, one has to install the European Union Expansion Font Update. There is no official way to add keyboard support for these characters. In order to type them, one has to either install 3rd[[Third-party source|third-party]] keyboards, or use the [[Character Map]].

All Linux distributions are able to correctly render S-comma and T-comma, since at least 2005. If these characters are missing from a certain font, they will be substituted with the glyph from another font. Although the [[X.Org Server]] supports the correct keyboard (ro comma) since at least 2005, selecting this keyboard from the user interface (e.g. [[GNOME]] Keyboard Properties) has only recently{{When|date=January 2024}} been made possible.

*[[DŢ|T-commacedilla]] (Ţ)

*[[SD-comma]] (D̦)

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