Dutch malarkey (was: Re: (base as a combing char))

Philippe Verdy responded to John Cowan: From: John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] the need to encode Dutch ij as a single character, which is neither necessary nor practical. (U+0132 and U+0133 are encoded for compatibility only.) In cases where ij is a digraph in Dutch text, i+ZWNJ+j will be

RE: (base as a combing char)

Dear Flarn, I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do: your question is a bit sketchy. Most Unicode characters are base characters, in that they do not combine with the character preceding them in the character stream based on their character properties. Some characters are combining

Re: (base as a combing char)

From: Addison Phillips [wM] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For example, Dutch sometimes treats the sequence ij as a single letter (it turns out that there are characters for the letter 'ij' in Unicode too, but they are for compatibility with an ancient non-Unicode character set). Software must be modified

Re: (base as a combing char)

Philippe Verdy scripsit: For this reason, Dutch will need a distinct ij letter, coded as a single character, and with its own capitalization rules (the uppercase or titlecase form of ij will be the single letter IJ, not two letters and not Ij; also there exists cases where diacritics can

Re: (base as a combing char)

From: John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] the need to encode Dutch ij as a single character, which is neither necessary nor practical. (U+0132 and U+0133 are encoded for compatibility only.) In cases where ij is a digraph in Dutch text, i+ZWNJ+j will be effective. I suppose you wanted to speak about the