Re: Encoding italic

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:28:07 -0800

On 2/8/2019 2:08 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 17:16:09 +0000 (GMT)
"[email protected] via Unicode" <[email protected]> wrote:


Andrew West wrote:


      

        

          
Just reminding you that "The initial character in a variation
sequence  
is never a nonspacing combining mark (gc=Mn) or a canonical
decomposable character" (The Unicode Standard 11.0 §23.4).


        

      

      

      

        
Hopefully the issue that Andrew mentions can be resolved in some way.


      

      
This is not a problem.  Instead of writing <ê, VS14>, one just writes
<e, VS14, U+0302 COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT>.

    

    
And .... introducing yet another convention, which is that
      combining marks inherit the font of the base character.

    
Remember, italics, even though presented as a boolean attribute
      in most UIs is in fact typographically a font selection.

    

    
A./

    

    


    

    

      

Richard.




    

    


    

  






























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