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For Japanese, in a Unicode context, I've never seen a combining mark actually used.
by asdffdsa33 13y ago
For Japanese, in a Unicode context, I've never seen a combining mark actually used.
- duskwuff 13y agoWhile the precombined versions are much more common, Japanese does have combining characters to add voiced and semi-voiced marks to syllabic characters (e.g, か vs が, は vs. ぱ).
- asdffdsa33 13y agoIt does, but I've never seen them used in a Unicode context.
- jerf 13y agoThe ideographic languages can't claim "a limited number of characters". (7-bit) ASCII fits on a typewriter ball. (By "limited", I meant small, rather than merely finite.) Of the various points I mentioned, in modern times this is probably the least important, now that RAM, ROM, and CPU are so dirt cheap. This wasn't always true.