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Is DZ "wrong" because it's not considered a digraph by professionals, or because people don't agree that digraphs should be considered single characters?
by happytoexplain 4y ago
Is DZ "wrong" because it's not considered a digraph by professionals, or because people don't agree that digraphs should be considered single characters?
- a1369209993 4y ago"DZ" isn't 'wrong', it's a perfectly valid two-character string consisting of "D" followed by "Z". Assigning to a multi-character string a encoded representation that isn't the concatenation of representations of each character in the string (especially while insisting that that makes it a distinct character in its own right) is what's wrong.
- bzxcvbn 4y agoBut the letter DZ is not the same thing as the letter D followed by the letter Z. It's a standalone letter in e.g. Hungarian or Slovak, much like æ isn't "ae".