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An excellent article, although: > “Ü” is a single grapheme cluster, even though it’s composed of two codepoints: U+0055 UPPER-CASE U followed by U+0308 COMBINI
by peteretep 6y ago
An excellent article, although:
> “Ü” is a single grapheme cluster, even though it’s composed of two codepoints: U+0055 UPPER-CASE U followed by U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS.
would be a great opportunity to talk about normal form, because there’s also a single code point version: “latin capital letter u with diaeresis”.
- colejohnson66 6y agoDoes anyone know the history behind why there’s two ways to “encode” things like that? What’s the rationale for having both combining and precombined codepoints?
- bombcar 6y agoI believe a lot of the "combined" characters are (basically) from importing old codepages directly into Unicode, and they did that so it would be a simple formula to convert from the various codepages in use. I may be wrong however.