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by kps 3553 days ago

  > Incidentally, the proper sequence is <base character><combining character>…, not the other way around.
A mistake in Unicode, IMHO. The other way around, it would have been possible to identify the end of a combining sequence without looking past the sequence. Also, ‘dead keys’ could have directly generated the required combining characters just like normal characters, rather than requiring special processing.