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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>This may be dumb/hopelessly naïve but here goes!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>My observations/inferences/suppositions re combining characters:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:#0A2F41;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>They were originally implemented as a way to reduce the total number of characters <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:#0A2F41;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We’re well past any likely original vision of the number of characters/scripts anyway, so that “savings” is kinda meaningless<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:#0A2F41;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Combiners are a pain overall (normalization!)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:#0A2F41;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>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…”)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>Ergo, I posit that there should never be a need for any NEW combiners.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'><br>Is there any sort of official or unofficial policy to that end? Inquiring minds and all that…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>...phsiii<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>