Some languages must naturally be composed of predictable, combinable marks to form glyphs. There are many separated diacritic codepoints, like "\u0061\u0301" =

Some languages must naturally be composed of predictable, combinable marks to form glyphs. There are many separated diacritic codepoints, like "\u0061\u0301" = à. I don't think this "hack" points to Unicode doing too much. For questionable technical design decisions, look at UTF16, surrogate pairs, etc.