by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2006/08/10 14:10 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2006/08/10/694593.aspx
An interesting question that comes up periodically when people look at Unicode....
As is true of other cases, this question has a true 'drive on a parkway, but park on a driveway' feel to it.
But the truth is that there are many Unicode characters with names like MODIFIER LETTER ______, and while some of them have a general category of Lm (Letter, Modifier), some of them do not. Many of them have a general category of Sk (Symbol. Modifier), instead.
The difference between the two general category values? Well, the principal difference is whether they can be used in identifiers -- Sk characters cannot, and Lm characters can. This is actually the main reason that Sk was added to Unicode!
I will be talking about some of these in upcoming posts, in the context of every Unicode character having a story....
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