I put some examples up on http://www.macchiato.com/utc/CGJ_examples.htm to illustrate the text in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr28/#3_9_special_character_properties under "Application of Combining Marks"
Do they make it any clearer? Mark ————— Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr] http://www.macchiato.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Kochanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 09:30 Subject: Re: How to make "oo" with combining breve/macron over pair? > >This thread has convinced me that I don't know the first thing about > >CGJs either. > > 1. Go out and get drunk. Stay up all night. > 2. Work hard the next day at something pointless. > 3. Get someone to wake you up and shout at you "what is a CGJ and how do I use it"? > > If you do not, at that stage, find the answer so obvious that you can blurt it out without thinking, then you can be **absolutely certain** that two thirds of application writers, operating system writers, device driver writers (ESPECIALLY device driver writers) and font designers will get CGJs hopelessly wrong. > > >
