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Only because they chose to do it like that. It doesn't need to.
by arp242 3y ago
Only because they chose to do it like that. It doesn't need to.
- kbolino 3y agoConsidering that Unicode did not invent combining diacritics, it follows that simple compatibility with existing encodings demanded it. Now that Unicode's goals have expanded beyond simply representing what already exists, precomposed characters would be too limiting.