RE: How to make "oo" with combining breve/macron over pair?

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 19:18:06 EST


Kent Karlsson's suggestion:

> I vaguely suggested adding
> an enclosing (in some sense) invisible combining character to
> solve this: <o, CGJ, o, invisible-enclosing, combining breve>.
> No character has been designated for such use, though. And I
> haven't made a formal proposal yet.
>

(i.e. create a generic way to make a non-enclosing combining mark
apply to a grapheme cluster, by encoding an invisible enclosing
combining mark)

or Doug Ewell's suggestion:

> Dan is looking for COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON and COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE,
> analogous to U+0360 through U+0362, and if I were Dan I'd be looking for
> them too.

(i.e. simply encode two more explicit double combining marks for the
missing items)

are the two contenders still standing in the ring.

In any case, there is no recognized way to represent these two
accents at the moment in Unicode, and some kind of encoding action
will need to be taken by the UTC to make it possible.

--Ken



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