Philippe Verdy wrote:
Or may be, only for historic texts, we could add a combining lowercase
e as an alternative to the existing diaeresis.
Something like U+0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E, maybe?
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
On 2017/03/25 03:33, Doug Ewell wrote:
Philippe Verdy wrote:
But Unicode just prefered to keep the roundtrip compatiblity with
earlier 8-bit encodings (including existing ISO 8859 and DIN
standards) so that "ü" in German and French also have the same
canonical decomposition even if the
Given the history of characters and the initial desire to be forward
compatible with previous ISO standards, I am convinced that there was no
other choice than preserving the unification, otherwise it would have been
impossible to reliably remap the zillions documents and databases or
applications
> On 24 Mar 2017, at 19:33, Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
>> But Unicode just prefered to keep the roundtrip compatiblity with
>> earlier 8-bit encodings (including existing ISO 8859 and DIN
>> standards) so that "ü" in German and French also have the same
>>
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> But Unicode just prefered to keep the roundtrip compatiblity with
> earlier 8-bit encodings (including existing ISO 8859 and DIN
> standards) so that "ü" in German and French also have the same
> canonical decomposition even if the diacritic is a diaeresis in French
> and
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