> << A similar situation can be seen in the Latvian letter U+0123 LATIN 
> SMALL LETTER G WITH CEDILLA. In good Latvian typography, this 
> character 
> is always shown with a rotated comma over the g, rather than 
> a cedilla 
> below the g, because of the typographical design and layout issues 
> resulting from trying to place a cedilla below the descender 
> loop of the 
> g. Poor Latvian fonts may substitute an acute accent for the rotated 
> comma, and handwritten or other printed forms may actually show the 
> cedilla below the g. >>

The Latvian "cedillas" are really commas below, and are best encoded so.
Still for lowercase g (not for uppercase) the comma below is _rendered_
as a turned comma above.

> Later at 7.7:
> 
> << U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW is sometimes rendered as U+0326 
> COMBINING COMMA BELOW is sometimes rendered as U+0312 
> COMBINING TURNED 
> COMMA ABOVE on a lowercase "g" to avoid conflict with the 
> descender. >>
> 
> So we have two cases noted where characters with combining class 202 
> (Below attached) can by Unicode specifications be rendered as if they 
> belonged to combining class 214 (Above attached).

COMBINING COMMA BELOW is not "attached", even though cedilla is.
A turned comma above is not _attached_ above...



Maybe an informative table is in order, giving which below diacritics
may, or should, be rendered (turned) above, and for which base
characters (latin/(greek/cyrillic?) small letters with descender?). I
mean,
there are other informative typographic tables in the standard, e.g.
giving some Devanagari conjuncts.

        /kent k

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