RE: Compound combining marks

From: David J. Perry (hospes@scholarsfonts.net)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2006 - 04:55:27 CST

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    Thanks, Peter and Jim--this clears it up!

    David

    > Indeed, these are not combinations of diacritics; they are
    > single diacritics the names for which are based on
    > combinations of single-stroke diacritics they seem to resemble.
    >
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    > Peter Constable
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    > > >>>>> "David" == David J Perry <hospes@scholarsfonts.net> writes:
    > >
    > > David> I notice that Unicode 5.0 has several compound
    > combining marks
    > > David> (macron plus acute, etc.) at U+1DC4..1DC9.
    > >
    > > I made that same mis-assumption about those character based on their
    > > names. A look at the code chart at:
    > >
    > > http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.0.0/charts/CodeCharts-5.0.0d1.pdf
    > >
    > > shows that they are not two diacritics but rather a blend.
    > >
    > > Eg, macron-acute starts out like a macron and takes a sharp turn up
    > > at the halfway point, akin to the acute. Something like this bad
    > > ascii art of < U+0223 U+1DC4 >:
    > >
    > > ,------------
    > > | _/
    > > | ou
    > > `------------
    > >
    > > (That is LATIN SMALL LETTER OU with COMBINING MACRON-ACUTE.)
    > >
    > > -JimC
    > > --
    > > James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com>
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