Markus> Xterm also can't handle more at the moment, and two combining
Markus> character per base character are sufficient for Thai, which is
Markus> after all the main reason why we bother with combining characters
Markus> at all in VT100 emulators. Also mathematicians and linguists (IPA)
Markus> who try to do their trade under VT100 emulators (as opposed to
Markus> proper word processing systems) should be more than happy with up
Markus> to two combining characters per cell.
Two combining characters should be enough for Lao, Khmer, Myanmar, most cases
of vowelized Arabic (with proper normalization), most cases of pointed Hebrew,
and most usages of the Indic scripts.
I can't find my documentation at the moment so I don't know if this is
correct, but Hakka and Tai-Lue might need more than two combining characters
(both use accented Latin script).
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