Unicode Latin combining diacritics - Looking for real-world example documents

[Chris Pratley]

Does anyone have real-world documents in Unicode that take advantage of Latin Combining Diacritics (U+0300 range and others) to accurately represent the text content? If so, I would appreciate links or docs mailed to me.   We’re doing some testing of Latin Diacritic support for IPA and African languages, romanizations, etc., and it is (understandably) very hard to find any “real” text in languages that require this support where the diacritics have not been left out in order to work around the lack of software support. (Catch-22!). I’m looking for text (especially with stacked diacritics) in IPA, Hausa, Ewe, or other West African languages, Mixtec or other Mexican languages, Dinka, Nuer, etc. Basically anything that is real-world and shows off typical or tricky diacritic combinations. If you could include an image or at least a verbal description to show what the display would be if it were correct, that would be lovely.   I’m not promising anything, but I know that there are several (many) people on this list who would be interested in having this support in Word or other Microsoft products, so now’s your chance to influence the outcome – if we’re going to get it done right I need your help!   Thanks in advance, Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word   Sent with OfficeXP on WindowsXP