Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Those *both* get rendered exactly the same, and both represent the same four-letter sequence. In the second example, the 'u' and the {umlaut combining character} combine to form one grapheme. The f's and n's just happen to be single-code-point graphemes.
I know some German, and to the best of my knowledge there are zero combining characters for it. The umlauts and the B both have their own code points.
legend has it there are others than can only be represented using a combining character.
??? I've never seen or heard of any. Not even in the old script that was in common use in Germany until after WW2.
