Clark Cox <clarkcox3 at gmail dot com> wrote: >> The characters are "majuscule S with a diagonal stroke", and >> "minuscule s with a diagonal stroke". This letter is used to >> represent a voiceless retroflex fricative, which is distinct from the >> alveolar fricative "s" and the palato-alveolar "sh". > > What's wrong with <U+0073, U+0338> and <U+0053, U+0338>?
The preferred approach seems to be to encode these precomposed letters-with-diagonal-slash separately, and simply not include canonical decompositions for them. I think I remember reading that the rationale is that the decomposed versions are harder for rendering engines to compose on the fly, compared to letters with "ordinary" diacritics that sit above or below the letter. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
