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What makes this worse is that some Cyrillic characters like the Cyrillic "а" have a different code point from the Latin "a" despite looking _exactly_ identical.
by bruce343434 5y ago
What makes this worse is that some Cyrillic characters like the Cyrillic "а" have a different code point from the Latin "a" despite looking _exactly_ identical. So unicode isn't even consistent with their unification logic.
- demetrius 5y agoI believe Cyrillic а and Latin а are different because there already existed legacy encodings where а and а were considered different characters, so Unicode kept the distinction for backward-compatibility. While there were no existing legacy encodings allowing to write Chinese and Japanese at the same time, so there was nothing to keep compatibility with.