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Umlauts? How come one needs ligatures for umlauts as they are independent characters with own Unicode or even old ASCII set codes[0]. [0] https://resources.ger
by imhoguy 6y ago
Umlauts? How come one needs ligatures for umlauts as they are independent characters with own Unicode or even old ASCII set codes[0].
[0] https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/schreiben/unicode/ https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/schreiben/unicode/
- ninjin 6y agoYou do not need ligatures for umlauts, but that does not stop the odd software (or maybe user?) here and there refusing to do it the “sensible way”.
- hibbelig 6y agoI believe that Unicode has multiple representations for Latin characters with diacritics: ä can be represented as a single character, but it can also be represented as two characters, “a”, plus “add two dots to the previous character”. You can convert between these forms.