Philippe Verdy wrote on 05/27/2003 11:50:39 AM: > Don't speak about overwriting sequences using Backspace in Unicode!
I wasn't; I was talking about typewriters, though the comparable thing was done in the era of Wordstar and daisy wheel / dot matrix printers. > If you want an overriding slash, use now the COMBINING STROKE > diacritic defined in Unicode (look in the U+3XX page, I can't > remember the codepoint exactly but this should be U+0337 for the > short one normally used on small letters, or U+0338 for the long one > normally used on capital letters)... Personally, I'd rather those combining overlays dried up and faded away. > I note that there's another interesting diacritic which looks nearly > the same as what you could use: U+20E0 (A combining enclosing > circle with a reverse stroke) and that can be used as a spacing > character by encoding it after a SPACE (U+0020), but cannot be > confused with an O letter with stroke... Is this a contest to see who can come up with the worst solution? - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
