Combining characters

Phil Smith III via Unicode <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:33:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
This may be dumb/hopelessly naïve but here goes!

 

My observations/inferences/suppositions re combining characters:

*	They were originally implemented as a way to reduce the total number of characters 
*	We’re well past any likely original vision of the number of characters/scripts anyway, so that “savings” is kinda meaningless
*	Combiners are a pain overall (normalization!)
*	Barring Earth joining the Galactic Federation and Unicode deciding to include all twelve billion alien languages, the current scheme will suffice forever (yeah, yeah, I know, “never say forever”, but…this feels like IPv6 addresses, “there are just SO many…”)

 

Ergo, I posit that there should never be a need for any NEW combiners.


Is there any sort of official or unofficial policy to that end? Inquiring minds and all that…

 

Thanks,

...phsiii