On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:41:13 -0400 David Starner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Győző Dobner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Actually, it would be even better to have something like a > > COMBINING PHONEME LENGTH MARK that can be used with both > > vowels and consonants in any script or language whatsoever and that > > would display differently in different languages, depending on the > > language tag used. > > No. Unicode has pretty much declared it won't do anything of the sort. > It would introduce ambiguity; there are already enough ways of > encoding ā without adding another one. This latter one was only a quick idea of mine and I was actually going to add something like "if it is compatible with the Unicode guidlines/policies". But my original question was not how to encode a combining macron in one more possible way but how to encode a length mark that would display as something _visually_ _distinguishable_ _from_ _a_ _macron_ (because the macron is functionally ambiguous and hence unsuitable for my purposes). Is it e.g. possible (i.e. is it Unicode-compliant) to combine a macron with some non-displaying character for this purpose, and if so, with which non-displaying character? I understand that ZERO-WIDTH JOINER is not supposed to be used in this way (or am I mistaken?). Best Regards, Gy. Dobner
