> On 24 Mar 2017, at 19:33, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Philippe Verdy wrote: > >> But Unicode just prefered to keep the roundtrip compatiblity with >> earlier 8-bit encodings (including existing ISO 8859 and DIN >> standards) so that "ü" in German and French also have the same >> canonical decomposition even if the diacritic is a diaeresis in French >> and an umlaut in German, with different semantics and origins. > > Was this only about compatibility, or perhaps also that the two signs > look identical and that disunifying them would have caused endless > confusion and misuse among users?
The Swedish letters ÅÄÖ are simplified ligatures, and not diacritic marks. For ÄÖ, in handwritten script style, a tilde, the same as Spanish Ñ, which is also a simplified ligature.
