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Does 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
by colejohnson66 6y ago
Does 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.