----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew C. West" <andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Tildes on vowels
> Personally I think that markup may be more appropriate, given the
countless possible permutations of
> combining/superscript letters that may be encountered in mediaeval texts
in various languages.
Why not just add *two* characters, either to the PUA or to Unicode?
U+XXXX = COMBINING LETTER ABOVE INDICATOR
U+XXXY = SUPERSCRIPT LETTER INDICATOR
This means that U+XXXX directly followed by "a" is a combining "a" above,
and that U+XXXY directly followed by "a" is a superscript "a".
This means some normalisation issues:
U+0061 U+0363 ≡ U+0061 U+XXXX U+0061
U+00AA ≡ U+XXXY U+0061
etc.
Stefan
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