Re: Ligatures

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 15:11, <address@hidden> wrote:

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
>     for another example where you stack stuff in two dimensions

An example of character combining other than side-by-side stacking is
much closer than that: Combining diacritics. Sure, you can delete an
acute accent from á by pressing Backspace, but you cannot put point
between the ‘a’ and the accent if you want to put a different
diacritic between them. (And putting multiple diacritics over a single
base character in various orders is a thing, it is the subject of the
Unicode Canonical Order subsection in Unicode standard.)