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Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:07:09 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:53:58 -0400
> 
> > UTF-8 cannot encode language-specific differences of a given
> > character, that is something that is against the basic principle of
> > Unicode: that each character has one and only one encoding.
> 
> But along the way they discovered that it's sometimes difficult to
> decide whether two "things" should be consider as one and the same
> character or not.  They ended up with a set of "rules" to make those
> decisions, but it's not nearly as simple as "each character has one and
> only one encoding".

Not sure what you allude to here.  Are you talking about the variation
selectors?



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