Language Analysis Systems, Inc. Unicode list reader scripsit: > It suggests that for many fonts, > > U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G + U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA > > and > > U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G + U+0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE > > would have exactly the same rendering. Some applications would need to > know this and treat U+0067 U+0327 the same as U+0067 U+0312 as > equivalent.
There is no requirement that any given font make all characters distinguishable. Many characters are almost always indistinguishable anyhow (A vs. Alpha vs. Cyrillic A); many may be indistinguishable, as Latin alpha vs. Greek alpha, or even Latin a vs. Latin alpha (which means the font is not usable for IPA, but that's allowed). The Last Resort font makes all Greek letters indistinguishable, all Cyrillic letters indistinguishable, etc. etc. > I wonder if there's call for some sort of table of Unicode sequences > that aren't canonically equivalent but render the same. Such a thing would be highly font-dependent and variable. -- "They tried to pierce your heart John Cowan with a Morgul-knife that remains in the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan wound. If they had succeeded, you would http://www.reutershealth.com become a wraith under the domination of the Dark Lord." --Gandalf
