On Sun, Dec 14 2025 at 14:02:41 -08:00:00, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
To make matters more complex, some combining marks are defined to not reorder. Those can be in any order defined by the author and could lead to duplicate encoding for the same display. The reasons behind supporting that are a bit complex, but generally it's done for scripts other than Latin.
Amusingly, study of literal Latin, the language, uses two combining marks of the same CCC together as a matter of course: dictionaries mark a vowel with (what in NFD would be) the sequence COMBINING MACRON, COMBINING BREVE to tell the reader that a syllable’s length either varies or cannot be determined.
-- Cheers, Alex
