Hi Kim, While it can be argued that the "NON-DESTRUCTIVE BACKSPACE" capability of a typewriter, allowing arbitrary overstruck characters, belongs to plain text, it is more akin to creating subscripts and superscripts by rotating the platen knob up or down by half-interval, which Unicode considers to be within the domain of markup rather than plain text.
Regards, Leo On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Kim Slawson <[email protected]> wrote: > It's nice to see a good selection of currency symbols defined in unicode, > but I wonder if it might be useful to add a few combining marks for the > purpose of constructing currency symbols. > > For example, many currency symbols use single or double horizontal lines, > vertical lines or solidi ( |, -, /, ||, =, // ). Having these available as > combining marks would simplify the creation of new currency symbols, as > many are simply overstruck letters. > > Would these be good candidates for proposed combining characters? > > Alternately (and I have no clue if this has been addressed), why not allow > arbitrary combining characters? ZWJ does not currently work for this, but > it could be amended to, or another joining character introduced. > > [image: KP logo] Kim Slawson <http://slawson.org/> > Kernel Panic Consulting <http://slawson.org/kernelpanic> > [email protected] > 207-370-7401 <+1-207-370-7401> >
