Re: Latin digraph characters (was: Re: Klingon silliness)

[Rick McGowan]

It has always been my impression that the dz and other digraphs were  
included ONLY because they existed in standards that were used as source  
material by the Unicode designers.  Such digraphs would not have been  
encoded otherwise.

        Rick

> Adam mentions the Latin digraphs encoded for DZ at U+01F1/2/3 and for DZ 
> with
> caron at U+01C4/5/6.  These characters, along with LJ at U+01C7/8/9 and NJ 
> at
> U+01CA/B/C, were ostensibly added so that Cyrillic (Serbian) text
> converted
> to the Latin (Croatian) script could be converted 1-to-1.  (DZ and DZ-caron  
> are also used in Slovak, as Adam points out.)
>