David Starner asked:
> Why are these characters in Unicode as L/l with caron? Why aren't they
> just L/l + '?
Legacy.
ISO/IEC 8859-2 10/03 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
11/05 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
Furthermore, since everyone knows that the Czech and Slovak
forms with carons and with apostrophes are variants of each
other -- depending on the facilities available (typewriter,
typeset, or computerized fonts) and on the typographic conventions --
it would clearly be a mistake to encode two different
characters (with two different decompositions). That would
just lead to normalization and searching problems.
The choice was just to go with the caron (hacek, makcen)
decompositions, and to treat the glyphs with the apostrophes
or raised commas as glyph variants (often the preferred
variants), rather than as distinct characters with distinct
decompositions.
--Ken
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