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Actually, they are not combining code points. Take for example the character 𪚥 (4 dragons). The codepoint is U+2A6A5, but in UTF16 it requires combining 2 ut

by imron 11y ago

Actually, they are not combining code points. Take for example the character 𪚥 (4 dragons). The codepoint is U+2A6A5, but in UTF16 it requires combining 2 utf16 characters (\uD869 and \uDEA5) in order to reference it. The codepoint however is still exactly the same (U+2A6A5).

vardump 11y ago
> The codepoint is U+2A6A5, but in UTF16 it requires combining 2 utf16 characters (\uD869 and \uDEA5) in order to reference it. No, you mean two UTF-16 code units. A character is one or more code points.