From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 01:44:40 EDT
Johann <myrkraverk at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:
> That does not have to be a problem, as long as there are no more than
> 255 accents and combinations of them. As for vietnamese, I just don't
> know how many there are, or how many characters they use.
You'll need UTF-8 and a fairly comprehensive font to read the following.
For Vietnamese, you should count on supporting the following vowels:
a à ả ã á ạ ă ằ ẳ ẵ ắ ặ â ầ ẩ ẫ ấ ậ e è ẻ ẽ é ẹ ê ề ể ễ ế ệ i ì ỉ ĩ í ị
o ò ỏ õ ó ọ ô ồ ổ ỗ ố ộ ơ ờ ở ỡ ớ ợ u ù ủ ũ ú ụ ư ừ ử ữ ứ ự y ỳ ỷ ỹ ý ỵ
the following consonant (in addition to most other English consonants):
đ
and this currency sign:
₫
For purposes of your mechanism, you can think of each vowel as having up
to 2 accents: (upper, right-attached, or none) plus (upper, lower, or
none). The way Vietnamese think of it is that the circumflex, breve,
and horn are part of the base letter (making a total of 12 base vowels),
whereas the grave, hook above, tilde, acute, and dot below are
considered diacritics (6 × 12 = 72 total vowels). All combinations are
possible.
Of course, all of the letters (not the dong sign) come in both uppercase
and lowercase.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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