Windows keyboard restrictions

[Richard Wordingham]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 14:05:17 +0200 (CEST)
Marcel Schneider <charupdate at orange.fr> wrote:

> 2. Supposed that Windows supported more than four characters per
> ligature:

> 2.1. Why has the MSKLC been limited to four characters per
> ligature?

Because that was believed to be the architectural limit.  Note however,
that it isn't 4 *characters* that is the limit, but 4 UTF-16 code units.

Richard.