>The ALA-LC conventions are not the only alternatives available for >representation of Abkhaz and/or Khanty/Mansi data in romanization. >In fact, you can find such data on the web using alternative >romanizations. So it isn't as if the current gap in figuring out >precisely how, in Unicode, to represent a double diacritic with >another diacritic applied outside the visible double diacritic >on a digraph is preventing anyone from using romanized Abkhaz or >Khanty/Mansi data in interchange.
By the same argument, Unicode might as well stop taking new characters; surely, between the 500 Latin characters and dozens of punctuation marks and combining characters and the other 70,000 characters, you can find a way to communicate whatever language or data you need communicated.
