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It's a backwards compatibility issue with an older character set where the symbol is used in latin transcription of Macedonian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
by dhosek 6y ago
It's a backwards compatibility issue with an older character set where the symbol is used in latin transcription of Macedonian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dz_(digraph)#Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dz_(digraph)#Unicode
- mark-r 6y agoThere are a lot of those in Unicode. Characters that are visually indistinguishable but exist to provide round-trip capability to some older character set.
- a1369209993 6y agoYes, and I'm assuming the reason BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK is not correctly classified is at least as stupid as that, and can therefore be safely ignored for the purposes of having legitimate reasons for things.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoFinally you've got to the point, that braille whitespace is not classified as a whitespace (which on checking is true). Why didn't you say that at the start.
- a1369209993 6y ago> that braille whitespace is not classified [correctly] I did! That was the first thing I said. > > characters that render as whitespace but aren't, for example U+2800 (BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK). > in actual braille, that is a whitespace character
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoIndeed you did. My apologies.