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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: python text, Byte Addressability And Beyond
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On Sun, 12 May 2024 16:12:26 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:

> Plus at some point (not sure when) they decided that characters have to
> be composable ...

I think that was true right from the beginning. Else you would have had a 
combinatorial explosion of alphabetic characters with diacritic marks.