RE: what combining diacritical mark suits d and l with stroke ?

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> Perhaps it would help if you indicated why you are looking for
> versions of these letters using combining diacritical marks.
>
> If the issue is weighting the letters for sorting, so that
> they sort as a type of d or a type of l, then that can be
> accomplished by the appropriate tailoring of a collation
> weighting table, and does not require an actual decomposition
> of the character itself.

Another feasible use for this would be searching/folding ("I don't have any
slashed Ls in my keyboard, but I'd still like to be able to find Polish names").
Off-hand I don't see anything on these in the TR30 draft.

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