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I'm interested too. I'm guessing the data is actually encoded into the character as they do look ever so slightly different with different content. This would

I'm interested too. I'm guessing the data is actually encoded into the character as they do look ever so slightly different with different content. This would suggest this means that you can create a dynamic font/character in unicode. I had no idea this was possible, can someone confirm/slap me down for saying silly things?

nirmal 17y ago
I'd like to see the algorithm used to do this sort of compression.
- est 17y ago
  > compression It's not actually compression, according to the author, the 'single character' is 6x larger than the original UTF8 bytes.
  - nirmal 17y ago
    Sorry, I should have used "encoding". Regardless, I'd still like to see code that does this.
ars 17y ago
It's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character However, most of the combining characters also have an equivalent single gylph composed version. But unicode supports making your own by overlaying. An important task of unicode encoding/decoding is inter-converting between the two forms. For example if you require a name to be unique, and one form uses combining characters and the other doesn't, they are identical, but different.