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
