is there even a limit?! Not intrinsically in Unicode. There is the concept of a ‘Stream-Safe’ format in UAX-15 that sets a limit of 30 combiners… Unicode strings in general are not guaranteed to be Stream-Safe, but this could certainly be taken as a sign that Unicode don’t intend to standardise new characters that would … Read more
What’s up with these unicode characters? That’s a character with a series of combining characters. Because the combining characters in question want to go above the base character, they stack up (literally). For instance, the case of ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ …it’s an ก (Thai character ko kai) (U+0E01) followed by 20 copies of the Thai combining character … Read more
The text uses combining characters, also known as combining marks. See section 2.11 of Combining Characters in the Unicode Standard (PDF). In Unicode, character rendering does not use a simple character cell model where each glyph fits into a box with given height. Combining marks may be rendered above, below, or inside a base character … Read more