OverStrike control character

Garth Wallace gwalla at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 00:44:41 CDT 2020


Would x OVERSTRIKE z look the same as z OVERSTRIKE x? If yes, would they be
considered identical for string matching purposes? Would they have to be
reordered for normalization? What would be the repercussions for collation?

Display is not the only thing text is for.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:30 PM abrahamgross--- via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> BS doesn't do that tho. even in the beginning of ascii it was only
> supported on some devices.
>
> Doing `echo -e 'xy\x08z'` results in `xz` and not in
> https://imgur.com/B0020Xb
>
>
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