And, of course, combining marks are needed for mathematics.
Precomposition for all such mathematical symbols would number in the
thousands.
Murray
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fieber [SMTP:jfieber@indiana.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 7:23 AM
> To: Multiple Recipients of
> Subject: Re: missing glyph `dotlessj'
>
> On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>
> > I must emphatically second Mark Leisher's comment on this
> > exchange.
> >
> > *The combining accents are not a mistake.*
> >
> > They are in Unicode by design, are implemented now in many
> > vendors' software, and are not going away.
>
> And they are essential for dealing with some odd situations for
> which allocating pre-composed characters would simply be silly.
> For instance, my wife is working with a bunch of Navajo
> materials, many which were produced before linguists and
> anthropologists came to any sort of agreement on a way to write
> Navajo. In this early stuff, there are all sorts of bizarre
> diacritics which can be handled nicely by composition. Would a
> pre-composed character be warranted just because one or two
> anthropologists used them in one or two books? I doubt it.
>
> -john
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