I'm not sure that your problem formulation is entirely adequate.
You make the point that you have little interest in diacritically marked
vowels, because you're a [monoglot] American; but you want to have '?' and
'¿' available, and the chief use of the second of this pair is in Spanish
text, which also abounds in diacritically marked vowels: A piece about the
World Cup in yesterday's El pais begins:
En esta jornada la mayor atracción estará en el debut de Italia. Holanda
ayer no alcanzó . . .
I think you would do better to group the problematic characters in a code
page into disjoint subsets of related ones and then decide which of these
subsets you want to support. Character-by-character decisions don't (in my
experience) work very well.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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