Johann <myrkraverk at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote: > That does not have to be a problem, as long as there are no more than > 255 accents and combinations of them. As for vietnamese, I just don't > know how many there are, or how many characters they use.
You'll need UTF-8 and a fairly comprehensive font to read the following. For Vietnamese, you should count on supporting the following vowels: a à ả ã á ạ ă ằ ẳ ẵ ắ ặ â ầ ẩ ẫ ấ ậ e è ẻ ẽ é ẹ ê ề ể ễ ế ệ i ì ỉ ĩ í ị o ò ỏ õ ó ọ ô ồ ổ ỗ ố ộ ơ ờ ở ỡ ớ ợ u ù ủ ũ ú ụ ư ừ ử ữ ứ ự y ỳ ỷ ỹ ý ỵ the following consonant (in addition to most other English consonants): đ and this currency sign: ₫ For purposes of your mechanism, you can think of each vowel as having up to 2 accents: (upper, right-attached, or none) plus (upper, lower, or none). The way Vietnamese think of it is that the circumflex, breve, and horn are part of the base letter (making a total of 12 base vowels), whereas the grave, hook above, tilde, acute, and dot below are considered diacritics (6 × 12 = 72 total vowels). All combinations are possible. Of course, all of the letters (not the dong sign) come in both uppercase and lowercase. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
