On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 17:50:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/18/2015 4:35 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
\u0301 is the "combining acute accent" [1].
[1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0301/index.htm
I won't deny what the spec says, but it doesn't make any sense
to have two different representations of eacute, and I don't
know why anyone would use the two code point version.
é might be obvious, but Unicode isn't just for writing European
prose. Uses for combining characters includes (but is *nowhere*
near to limited to) mathematical notation, where the
combinatorial explosion of possible combinations that still
belong to one grapheme cluster (character is a familiar but
misleading word when talking about Unicode) would trivially
become an insanely (more atoms than in the universe levels of)
large number of characters.
Unicode is a nightmarish system in some ways, but considering how
incredibly difficult the problem it solves is, it's actually not
too crazy.
