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What does "no combinations" mean?

• Ekaros 1y ago
  Like say Ä it might be either Ä a single byte, or combination of ¨ and A. Both are now supported, but if you can have more than two such things going in one thing it makes a mess.
  • amake 1y ago
    That's fundamental to the mission of Unicode because Unicode is meant to be compatible with all legacy character sets, and those character sets already included combining characters. So "no combinations" was never going to happen.
  • int_19h 1y ago
    That quickly explodes if you need more than one diacritic per letter (e.g. Vietnamese often has two, and then there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Diacritics_and_prosodic_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...).