Re: Character allocation

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Feb 07 2004 - 16:40:19 EST

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At 16:20 -0500 2004-02-07, Laurentiu Iancu wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I noticed that a new combining character, U+1DC2 Combining Snake Below, has
>been added. Just out of curiosity, what were the reasons why this character
>was allocated at this code point rather than, for instance, U+0358, the last
>free position in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Is it maybe based on
>character frequency? Learning about allocation criteria helps me better
>understand the structure of Unicode.

That kind of "structure" is meaningless. People just forgot that
space was open. For something like this, it really doesn't matter.

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