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He meant U+44 U+5A. The ASCII letters D and Z.


Then in that case because some apparent pairs of letters are in fact a single letter in some languages. Per the DZ wiki page someone else has given, DZ is a distinct single letter in hungarian and slovak at least.

Double letters being a single letter isn't rare, such as ll and dd in welsh. In a strange sense it arguably occurs in english in th and th, which I could argue are double-letter representations of single letters, which were originally eth and thorn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29


Yes, exactly; "Dz" and "ll" (and "fi" at U+FB01) are single characters to exactly the same extent as "th" is, ie not.




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