Re: Combining Characters

On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM Don Hosek via Unicode <
[email protected]> wrote:

> When a Combining Backslash is added for Jovian, well, now that character
>> is new and normalization adventures abound.
>>
>
> [...]
>
> The only case I can see where things could get weird would be if there
> suddenly became some weird case where, e.g., the Jovians insisted that the
> combining backslash must appear before the letter and not after it (and
> it’s been a few years since I had to really look at the rules and this
> might be possible with the existing combining character classes anyway).
>

Some of the Indic-script vowel marks *appear graphically* before their
consonant.

We also have scripts like Thai with characters that have the
Logical_Order_Exception
property <https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/#Logical_Order_Exception>
and are encoded in memory before their consontants.

However, when the Jovians arrive with their billion-character encoding,
then Unicode will become a legacy encoding.

markus