Laughter: Yes, Doug I could see what you have done, but it does not appear right or look right. It is just like putting the nose where the eyes are supposed to be a bit out of phase; especially with the dot below and even worst when one is considering O with dot below. Looking at what you have done and which I have done, it is not enough that there are codes to take care of what we are discussing, I just think a lot of shifting right and left has to be done in the font table which will adversely affect using the equivalent codes.
This is what I am trying to say. If I shift the position of my grave, acute or dot in the font table to compensate for what I wanted to acheive with EÌÌ it will affect the position when applying the same on another letters. I am aware that there could be an instruction in the font on how it should display a letter. Besides it requires a special instruction to have EÌÌ in a font table as suggested by the guys at Fontlabs which I am yet to experiment. But since Peter is here, he can shed more light on how this can be implemented. Dele Olawole ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "African Oracle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 8:20 AM Subject: Re: Just if and where is the then? Dele and Philippe, The solution is *not* to develop a new African 8-bit encoding that encodes EÌÌ and eÌÌ as precomposed characters, and then try to use that as a justification for getting them encoded as precomposed characters in Unicode, "but without any canonical equivalence." The solution is to use the combining marks and encode EÌÌ and eÌÌ as I have done in this message. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
