Comment by rurban
4 years ago
> When you have 26 base letters and 6 possible accents you'd need 26 + 26 * 6 (182) unique representations for single accented letters and 26 + 26 * 6 + 26 ^ 2 (1118) for double accented letters.
No, you don't. Only the most common combinations have their own Unicode number. Most combinations can simply be combined by base and accent ("Mark") numbers. Unicode is not that stupid.
>No, you don't. Only the most common combinations have their own Unicode number. Most combinations can simply be combined by base and accent ("Mark") numbers. Unicode is not that stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Lat...
The most common being literally all of them.
Between Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B and Latin Extended Additional you have some 700 extra characters of which half are some type of accented letter. I only said you'd need 182 for the six most common European accents. Unicode somehow ends up using 300.
The only people who defend unicode are people who have never looked into the spec.