From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Sep 11 2005 - 11:13:05 CDT
Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote:
>> Thus, it seems that whether one uses the COMBINING LOW LINE or
>> COMBINING (DOUBLE) MACRON BELOW depends on the language: Shoshoni
>> using the former, and Carrier the latter.
> ...
> There's no one right answer; there are just more or less good answers.
> Ultimately, it will probably boil down to what encoding conventions
> wrt the available options the user community adopts. What you've
> suggested for either Carrier or Shoshone seems to me to be a
> reasonable answer.
Either one or the other, but not both. I don't see the benefit of
encoding essentially the same orthographic and typgraphic construction
in two different ways based solely on language. I think that will only
add create confusion.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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