> Incidentally, the proper sequence is <base character><combining character>…, not the other way around. A mistake in Unicode, IMHO. The other way around, it w

> Incidentally, the proper sequence is <base character><combining character>…, not the other way around. A mistake in Unicode, IMHO. The other way around, it would have been possible to identify the end of a combining sequence without looking past the sequence. Also, ‘dead keys’ could have directly generated the required combining characters just like normal characters, rather than requiring special processing.