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Unicode was created to unify a number of different pre-existing character sets so they all could be mapped directly to unicode code points. Some of these charac
by goto11 8y ago
Unicode was created to unify a number of different pre-existing character sets so they all could be mapped directly to unicode code points. Some of these character-sets had pre-composed characters, e.g. a single code-point to represent 'ö'. Other used combining characters. Unicode therefore had to support both.
- eridius 8y agoIn particular, Unicode codepoints 128-255 were explicitly defined to be the same as ISO-8859-1, which has a bunch of precomposed characters in it.
- paulddraper 8y agoThe Unicode space is massive. It's odd they didn't just spend a bunch of code points for those existing (predominately Latin) character. Unless you are supposed to be able to put an unlaut on any character. CJK characters with umlauts.
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