Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

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Karl Pentzlin <karl dash pentzlin at acssoft dot de> wrote:

>> ... which gives us a tighter limit of 3,600 combinations
>
> If you take into account that:
> - a lot of people (e.g. linguists and writers of North American
> indigenous languages) use to attach 3 diacritical marks onto a base
> letter,

I think the phrase "a lot of people" greatly overstates the matter.

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