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

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 17:21:48 EST


Rick McGowan wrote:

> Why not just encode two new double combining marks to go along with the
> already known double diacritics at U+0360, U+0361, U+0362 [...] These are just
> two more examples of something we already have; and there are not likely
> to be thousands of them, perhaps only a few more.

Famous last words. It wouldn't surprise me if every non-
script-specific combining mark of the "above" and "below" canonical
combining classes ended up being valid associated with two letters.
Do you want double-diacritic clones for all 65 or so?

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