It really isn't necessary to remind anyone that the Netherlands objected to adding the Romanian characters. In any case COMBINING CEDILLA and COMBINING COMMA BELOW were characters in Unicode 1.0.
But Romanians are still frustrated because most fonts distributed as part of computer operating systems or otherwise available do not support these characters.
Apple does a good job. They are in many of their shipping fonts.
Since there is no linguistic tradition in any language for _t_ with a cedilla shape beneath, most modern fonts display an undercomma beneath U+0162, U+0163 instead of a cedilla shape.
"Most"? By the way I believe the Times Atlas of the World uses t-cedilla in transcriptions of Arabic or Ethiopic names. I forget which.
There are actually three conflicting uses, since Gagauz traditionally uses a cedilla shape under _c_ an undercomma beneath _t_ and a symbol halfway between the two under _s_. See http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2002-m09/0199.html
You overstate the case. "Traditionally" is not indicated in that posting, but only "anecdotally" with regard to some references consulted.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
