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Why on earth would unicode U+01F1, with it's obvious hex encoding of 01F1, be encoded as hex value 44 5A (a Han character https://www.fileformat.info/info/unico
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Why on earth would unicode U+01F1, with it's obvious hex encoding of 01F1, be encoded as hex value 44 5A (a Han character https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/445a/index.htm https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/445a/index.htm)?
- wnoise 6y agoHe meant U+44 U+5A. The ASCII letters D and Z.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoThen in that case because some apparent pairs of letters are in fact a single letter in some languages. Per the DZ wiki page someone else has given, DZ is a distinct single letter in hungarian and slovak at least. Double letters being a single letter isn't rare, such as ll and dd in welsh. In a strange sense it arguably occurs in english in th and th, which I could argue are double-letter representations of single letters, which were originally eth and thorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29
- a1369209993 6y agoYes, exactly; "Dz" and "ll" (and "fi" at U+FB01) are single characters to exactly the same extent as "th" is, ie not.