> If a can have U+0061 and have a composite that is U+00e2...U+... > If e can have U+0065 and have a composite that is U+00ea...U+... > > Then why is e with accented grave or acute and dot below cannot be assigned > a single unicode value instead of the combinational values 1EB9 0301 and > etc.... > > Since UNICODE is gradually becoming a defacto, I still think it will not be > a bad idea to have such composite values.
The existing composites were included only out of necessity so that new Unicode implementations could interoperate with existing implementations using legacy industry-standard encodings. Apart from the backward compatibility issue, these composites go against Unicode's design principles and are not needed. No new composite values will be added. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division
