Re: Comments on locale name guideline: CODESET names

[Bruno Haible]

Pablo Saratxaga writes:

> > it has combining characters, which Markus wants to exclude...
> 
> on the other hand I never saw anyone using them.
> 
> The combining characters in tcvn-5712 are much like those in iso10646:
> the preferred way is to use precomposed chars.

Wrong. You cannot even write the Vietnamese greeting line from the Emacs
HELLO file in TCVN-5712 without using combining characters.

TCVN has precomposed characters for CIRCUMFLEX, DIAERESIS and BREVE but
doesn't have for U+0300 (GRAVE), U+0301 (ACUTE), U+0303 (TILDE),
U+0309 (HOOK), U+0323 (BOT BELOW). These characters are composing.

Bruno
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