Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names

[pne]

Once a Unicode character has been given a name, that name cannot be changed, even if it later turns out that the name was inappropriate or wrong.

Here's a technical note talking about some "known anomalies" in those names.

Comments

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

I note this:

U+04A5 CYRILLIC SMALL LIGATURE EN GHE
U+04B5 CYRILLIC SMALL LIGATURE TE TSE
U+04D5 CYRILLIC SMALL LIGATURE A IE
Despite their names, these are not decomposable ligatures.

In comparison to this:

U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH
U+0239 LATIN SMALL LETTER QP DIGRAPH
These are actually ligatures, rather than digraphs.

IMO: If a ligature must be decomposable to be named a ligature, the Africanist (and proposed IPA) labiovelar stop symbols are quite transparently not ligatures in Unicode terminology. Either that, or the Cyrillic "ligatures" above are indeed ligatures.