On 5 Mar 2012, at 18:48, Denis Jacquerye wrote: > My question really is whether they could not be seen as > <comb>a<comb><comb>diaeresis</comb>, etc. Where the shape of > <comb>diaeresis</comb> is contextual.
No, because both the combining-a and the combining-diaeresis are bound to the base letter; the combining diaeresis is not bound to the combining-a. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

