From: John (Eljay) Love-Jensen (eljay@adobe.com)
Date: Mon Jan 18 2010 - 12:33:44 CST
Hi Alain,
On my computer, the Unicode combining characters work for me, for the Shimaore and Kibushi alphabets:
LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DIAERESIS
Unicode: U+006E U+0308
UTF-8: 6E CC 88
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DIAERESIS
Unicode: U+004E U+0308
UTF-8: 4E CC 88
LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH MACRON
Unicode: U+0076 U+0304
UTF-8: 76 CC 84
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V WITH MACRON
Unicode: U+0056 U+0304
UTF-8: 56 CC 84
Is there any reason that the combining characters are insufficient?
I believe that one suitable case for insufficiency can be made on the widespread prevalence of pre-existing computer encoding as a single code point, and a necessity for 1:1 mapping rather than 1:2 mapping (employing the combining diacritical marks) above.
Sincerely,
--Eljay
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