This article is mostly written from a European language perspective. For Indian scripts, storing combining characters as a separate code points is the right thi

This article is mostly written from a European language perspective. For Indian scripts, storing combining characters as a separate code points is the right thing to do. For example, कि (ki) is composed of क and ि When I'm writing this in an editor, say, I typed ku (कु) instead of ki (कि) and I press backspace, I indeed want to see क rather than deleting the whole "कि".