Re: Can the combining diacritical marks combine with any base character?

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello_at_mitre.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Can the combining diacritical marks combine with any base character?

Yes.

> If yes, wouldn't normalizing this:
>
> <comment>(U+0303)
>
> to NFC result in converting the XML start tag into non-well-formed XML? (It is not well-formed because there is no longer a '>' character after the tag name; rather, there is a '>' character with a tilde on top.)

Normalizing it to NFC would change nothing, since there's no
precomposed '>' + diacritic characters.

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