On Mon, 17 May 2021 15:45:00 +0200 Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is only *one* codepoint for the German letter a Umlaut: > LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESI U+00E4 True. On the other hand, the sequence: * U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A * U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS will render exactly the same glyph. The two forms are closely related: U+00E4 is in NFC (normalization form canonical composition), U+0061 U+0308 is in NFD (normalization form canonical decomposition). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence#Normalization -- Dakkar - <Mobilis in mobile> GPG public key fingerprint = A071 E618 DD2C 5901 9574 6FE2 40EA 9883 7519 3F88 key id = 0x75193F88