Talk:List of precomposed Latin characters in Unicode

Article scope
What is this list for? Many of the characters in it are not precomposed. Gorobay (talk) 18:50, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Really? Which ones are not precomposed? V85 (talk) 19:26, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * A decomposable (a.k.a precomposed) character is a “character that is equivalent to a sequence of one or more other characters, according to the decomposition mappings found in the Unicode Character Database”. Characters with diacritics that modify the base character's shape (e.g. curl) or that are overlaid on the base character (e.g. stroke) are not decomposable. Most of the characters in the ligature table are not decomposable either. Gorobay (talk) 20:12, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved. Although User:Gorobay claimed that the current title is wrong, no suitable replacement was offered in the discussion. Consider reopening if a more definite proposal can be made. EdJohnston (talk) 22:05, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

List of precomposed Latin characters in Unicode → ? – This is not a list of precomposed Latin characters in Unicode. I can’t think of a succinct title, but the current title is wrong. “Precomposed” and “decomposable” are inappropriate descriptions because they mean something specific in Unicode. Relisted. BDD (talk) 16:16, 14 August 2013 (UTC) Gorobay (talk) 16:48, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * All these characters are precomposed in the Unicode sense. — Lfdder (talk) 12:52, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Many are not: ⟨Æ⟩, ⟨&⟩, ⟨Ȣ⟩, ⟨W⟩, ⟨₧⟩, etc. Gorobay (talk) 14:08, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'd not seen the second table. Just take them out. — Lfdder (talk) 17:54, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Future of this article
My personal opinion is that the article should be nominated for deletion. I could not find any support for this table in the documentation at http://www.unicode.org. My guess is that the article, created in 2007 by an editor who is now indefinitely blocked, is original research. There is a risk that readers of Wikipedia will expect this table to be reliable and we will propagate misinformation. From what I can determine the content is not wildly wrong. There seem to be 741 Latin characters with diacritics in UnicodeData.txt, and if you count all the table entries here, there are several hundred characters. However 'not wildly wrong' is not enough to satisfy WP:V. EdJohnston (talk) 22:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Changing my comment to clarify that the creator of this article is now indefinitely blocked. EdJohnston (talk) 19:26, 25 August 2013 (UTC)