Mark E. Shoulson scripsit: > Besides, you have a better idea? :)
Double-encode the vowel marks. As things stand, two Unicode principles are in conflict: combining characters come after their bases, and natural-language text is encoded in phonetic order (with I think four exceptions in Thai and four in Lao as a result of the typewriter-based legacy standard). So create Quenya-mode vowel marks which are combining, and separate Sindarin-mode vowel marks which are modifier letters, but are rendered with the following character either by ligaturing or by fiddling with the glyph width. Fontologists, is the last idea feasible? Ligatures obviously work, but involve a combinatorial explosion. -- Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, John Cowan is a tax on income. --Lord Macnaghten (1901) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
