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It’s worth noting this kind of distinction did used to exist in the Latin alphabet as well. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, German letters were differe
by SpicyLemonZest 5y ago
It’s worth noting this kind of distinction did used to exist in the Latin alphabet as well. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, German letters were different, as part of a debate about whether German text should be written in blackletter or Latin/Antiqua/what-other-Europeans-use script.
- dotancohen 5y agoWe still have these issues in e.g. Hebrew and Yiddish, Arabic and Persian, and tons of adapted Cyrillic scripts from ex-Soviet states. Not to mention Northern-European accented vowels, and cedilla letters such as Ç. I'm personally of the belief that the accented and cedilla characters should be exclusively stored as combining character pairs, even if modern keyboard mappings require only a single keypress. My own language stores every character as two bytes (at a minimum), so the storage aspect is a solved problem.