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by inguz 2736 days ago
There's a text-printer 'Cedilla' (https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/cedilla/) that uses this composition across large parts of Unicode - to quite good effect it seems.

The Teletype doesn't do backspace (!) but can do carriage-return... so e.g. to print "Björk" , the text is: BJORK(CR)(space)(space)(quote). I have a Teensy microcontroller that already handles some ANSI-escape characters, and implements the 'backspace' ^[[D this way (https://github.com/hughpyle/ASR33/blob/master/firmware/ansi_...). Next on the backlog is "bold", using a similar strategy. Fun times :)