Combining Characters

[Doug Ewell]

Markus Scherer wrote:

> However, when the Jovians arrive with their billion-character
> encoding, then Unicode will become a legacy encoding.

Yeah, I’m really not a fan of this whole “Jovian” and “Venusian” and “Galactic Federation” line of argument.

As several (including Markus) have observed here, the use of combining characters in non-Latin scripts and in transcription can differ markedly from their use in Latin-script, natural-language scenarios.

The original questions strongly implied that only Latin-script, natural-language scenarios were relevant, to the extent that anything else must be from outer space. That’s unfair to languages written in scripts other than Latin, as well as to the efforts made in Unicode for 35 years to provide good support for these scripts and for contexts other than natural language.

Apologies if humor was implied throughout and I didn’t get it.

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