Re: letters separated by markup & diacriticals

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jun 10 2005 - 08:15:46 CDT

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At 15:04 +0200 2005-06-10, Peter R. Mueller-Roemer wrote:

>For *combining diacritical marks* it should be part of the *unicode
>standard*, that e.g. color-change (markup) of base-letter or any
>diacritic should not affect the composed character's shape. If one
>wants to de-emphasize the base-letter or use the dotted-O instead -
>as is done in the character charts for *combining diacritical marks*
>it is very annoying if OpenOffice, WordPerfect, Word and browsers
>behave differently or altogether refuse to combine in the desired
>way.

I'd tend to agree with you, Peter.

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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