"Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/03/2003 07:25:46 AM:
> How do you consider the existing "hook" diacritic ? If you're talking about U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE, I don't think it normally attaches. In fact, it's combining class is 230 'above' and not 214 'above attached'. > Attached > diacritics are already encoded. We can use them as a good fallback > system in their context, so that the text will e mostly readable but > users that are not aware of that specific usage. They are marginally good as a fallback. For anything beyond a fallback, the problems are several, and the reality is that usually there are only a small number of base characters anybody ever expects them to be used with. Now, please note that I am generalizing; there may certainly be exceptions. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
