Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

[DougEwell2]

In a message dated 2001-09-26 8:09:18 Pacific Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>> The problem is, I have a couple of German texts that I plan to
>> transcribe, where all I need is HYPHEN WITH DIARESIS.
>
> So, you type HYPHEN or EN DASH and then COMBINING DIAERESIS ABOVE.

I think that was David's point, that these things are always possible using 
combining characters, and the argument "but it's easier with a precomposed 
character" doesn't stand up to the concerns about proliferation and 
normalization.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California