??
Your question should be redirected to the ISO committee which codified
the character set no. 5 in ISO 8859. At my first sight the interval
U+0400 -- U+045F looks like it was pasted from the upper part of
latin/cyrillic, except for a few characters.
-Herman
Elliotte Rusty Harold skreiv:
>
> Speaking of unexpected sights in Unicode, does anybody else wonder if
> the code points chosen for Cyrillic capital letters DZE, IE, and HA
> (#x405, #x415, and #425, all exactly 16 positions apart so they line
> up nicely in the character tables) is a coincidence or not?
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