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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Unicode is set up for scholarship and backwards compatibility.
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Luckily, we'll be able to read .txt files from an Ancient Cretian thumb drive.
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Variant forms which don't have linguistic significance (and are not needed for backwards compatibility like fi and fl) do not rate and will not get code points (and should not be assigned points in the PUA if one wants the under-lying text to be seen as text)
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And this is a failure on the part of the Unicode consortium, simple as that.
Ligatures certainly can have linguistic significance, just look at the ampersand sign, and Unicode honours this for many other languages. I wouldn't be so bothered if if weren't for the fact that the Unicode range contains such a large amount of rubbish.