Am 2001-06-14 um 20:17 h PDT hat <11@onna.com> geschrieben:
> With a pen [...]: e, THEN circumflex
> With Unicode decomposed: circumflex, THEN e
> With Unicode composed: e with circumflex
...
> Unicoders, did I say it right?
No. One item wrong, one item (at least) missing.
In Unicode, the diacritic always follows its base character.
Cf. TUS 3.0, section 3.5, in particular definition D17,
also in <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/ch03.pdf>.
This topic is extensively covered in the FAQ,
see <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/char_combmark.html>.
The missing item: keyboard input. Many keyboard drivers
indeed implement diacritics via dead keys, i. e., you have
to hit first the circumnflex key, then the "e" key, in
order to enter U+00EA Latin small letter E with circumflex.
However, this has nothing to do with Unicode decomposed
characters.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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