Why was L2/25-061 provisionally assigned?

[Doug Ewell]

piotrunio-2004 at wp.pl wrote:

> And there is already precedent of spacing diacritics composed with
> combining characters, particularly U+0385 which is composed as U+00A8
> U+0301 (although the precomposed version is encoded as it's essential
> for CP869, CP1253, and ISO 8859-7 compatibility).

No character that was encoded solely for compatibility with existing character sets (and it looks like U+0385 is one of those) ever serves as a precedent for encoding other similar characters for which the compatibility issue does not apply.

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