Combining characters

[Phil Smith III]

This may be dumb/hopelessly naïve but here goes!

 

My observations/inferences/suppositions re combining characters:

*	They were originally implemented as a way to reduce the total number of characters 
*	We’re well past any likely original vision of the number of characters/scripts anyway, so that “savings” is kinda meaningless
*	Combiners are a pain overall (normalization!)
*	Barring Earth joining the Galactic Federation and Unicode deciding to include all twelve billion alien languages, the current scheme will suffice forever (yeah, yeah, I know, “never say forever”, but
this feels like IPv6 addresses, “there are just SO many
”)

 

Ergo, I posit that there should never be a need for any NEW combiners.


Is there any sort of official or unofficial policy to that end? Inquiring minds and all that


 

Thanks,

...phsiii

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