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Re:Unicode, Perl 6, and You by lelf on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:20PM (#10691363)
Yes. Bear in mind however that ligatures are in Unicode only for the backward compatibility.

  > 'ffl'.chars
  1
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Re:Unicode, Perl 6, and You by logicallee on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:24PM (#10691946)
that's sure to ruffle some feathers.

(see what I did there)

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Re:Unicode, Perl 6, and You by evmar on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:37PM (#10692062)
Try highlighting substrings of that text -- my browser doesn't even know it's multiple characters. (Separate is the idea of a browser displaying ligatures, which already works. But that's because ligatures are a display issue and the source text must have non-ligature text in it.)
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