> I just realized that this is not the whole story. There's no > requirement that a combining character has to actually come > after a character it can be combined with. So there might be > valid identifiers containing sequences of characters that don't > have a sensible rendering, or that force the combining comma to > appear separately and thus indistinguishable from a quotation > mark even in a Unicode-aware editor.
That can't happen. In Unicode, there is no notion of "can be combined with": any base character can be combined with any combining character. The rendering engine is supposed to create a glyph on the fly. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com