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For questions about Unicode, a standard for all the characters of all writing systems of the world.

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How to "remove diacritics" from Arabic text in unicode?

It seems to me that the issue is defining what you mean by "diacritic". You strip the under-dots from yeh, but not from beh.You strip off hamza, maddah, nukta but preserve the diacritic in Farsi ؽ.You …
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Which writing script can represent all human sounds?

The only writing system that comes close to what you describe is the IPA, or the now-deprecated APA. However, if you add the consideration of being "phonemic", then we would have to know exactly what …
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Why are letters with a stroke not decomposed in Unicode?

The precomposed letters are preserved in Unicode for legacy reasons, and having a dedicated Ø key was a reasonable solution in Scandinavia, whereas five or so precomposed umlauted keys would be impractical …
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