Comment by cestith

I made no mention of collation, alternate compositions, or of fonts. All I'm saying is that Unicode from the beginning could have had capital alpha and capital Latin 'A' been the same glyph with a glyph-part representation and a separate letter-part representation could have made clear which was which. O-with-umlaut and o-with-diareses could have been done the same. Since you've mentioned fonts, I'll carry on through that topic. Rather than having two code points with two different entries in every font, we could have considered the glyph and the parent alphabet as two pieces of data and had one entry in the font for the glyph.