Re: Questions about proposed characters

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun May 30 1999 - 16:29:11 EDT

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Ar 11:08 -0700 1999-05-30, scríobh John Cowan:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>
>> Many of the digraphs already there are either from legacy
>> character sets (such as a lot of Arabic presentation forms as far as I
>> know)
>
>The Arabic ligatures don't even have that much excuse. They were dragged
>in for purely political reasons.

Someone must have thought they were a good idea for some technical reason
or other.

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