Re: s-j combination in Unicode?

I asked:

: wondered how to code an s-j overstrike combination

and learn from Karl Pentzlin about n3555.pdf where Michael Everson
proposes U+1E0A2 LATIN SMALL LETTER ESJ (and many other characters).
This document is from 2008. What is the status?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:24:12PM -0800, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> On 2/13/2013 1:59 PM, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> >[Concerning the g-slash, r-slash, eth-slash symbols,
> >they can be coded using U+0337 as g̷ r̷ ð̷.
>
> Unicode generally does not decompose slashed symbols - so for
> example, o-slash does not have a decomposition using U+0337. The
> UTC may not feel bound by this as a precedent, but it would mean
> that such encoding could definitely be proposed, and probably should
> be, to get any decision to decompose these explicitly on the record.

Yes, o-slash is not decomposed, so is different from o followed by U+0337.
But otherwise: are the characters with names starting with COMBINING
not intended to be used as combining diacriticals? Wouldn't use such
as the above be precisely as intended?

[However, n3555.pdf also contains
U+1E067 LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH WITH STROKE
U+1E06E LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
U+1E096 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
and, e.g.,
U+1E0AE LATIN SMALL LETTER NASAL Y
for y with ogonek. At first sight I do not see the a-ring-ogonek here.
Does it occur elsewhere?]

Andries
Received on Thu Feb 14 2013 - 07:43:36 CST