On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> At 09:52 PM 2/18/02 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
> >So if some language turns out to need
> >"a with horn" in the future, its readers will have to cross its fingers
> >that rendering engines become capable of displaying U+0061 U+031B
> >properly.
>
> Support for such arbitrary combination is apparently in the works in several
> camps - it's needed in African languages for one.
>
> A./
Thursday, February 21, 2002
Transliteration (converting texts from one writing system to another) is
of course an unnatural act (not in natural language) but is is sometimes
necessary. Transliteration often uses letters with diacritics to
represent letters not found in the target writing system. Many of these
letter + combining mark combinations do not have a precomposed equivalent
in Unicode (because they do not occur in normal text of the source
language) but they are needed when such texts must be presented in
another writing system. Many can be found in the ALA/LC romanization
tables. John Jenkins has a list of several of such combinations found in
cataloging data to help in preparing a TR which I gather will tell those
concerned with rendering engines that such combinations can occur.
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