From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 10:38:34 CDT
> There is no problem with the dot below concerning all the letters I was
> talking about, the problems are with the accents which are not properly
> positioned and in font development for example there are standard
> positions.
> Look at the following examples as sent by Åke
>
> Eò ì the accent is at the edge of the E with dot below - It is the same no
> matter which font is used
It *does* matter what font is used and what software is used. Provided you use software that has appropriate font-technology support, such as the OpenType support in Office 2003, and provided you use a font that supports that technology, such as the Doulos SIL font, it will display exactly as you require.
This excerpt from a screenshot shows how the character sequence < 1EB8, 0301, 1EB9, 0301 > appears in Word 2003 using the Doulos SIL font.
Unicode is *designed* to use combining sequences in this way. The fact that you see any precomposed combinations, even the e-dot, does not imply a precedent as these are the exceptions.
Peter Constable
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