I would like to ask the old farts^W^Wrespected elders of the UTC which principle they consider more important, abstractly speaking: the principle that combining marks always follow their base characters (a typographical principle), or that text is stored, with a few minor exceptions, in phonetic order (a lexicographical principle).
Are you thinking of the Tengwar? -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
