Re: An unexpected sight...

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 09:52:06 EST

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Speaking of unexpected sights in Unicode, does anybody else wonder if
the code points chosen for Cyrillic capital letters DZE, IE, and HA
(#x405, #x415, and #425, all exactly 16 positions apart so they line
up nicely in the character tables) is a coincidence or not?

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