At 07:40 AM 7/4/99 -0700, Jeroen Hellingman wrote:
> The semantics of both i and j
>should be that
>they loose their dots if you put an accent on top of them, so there never
>should be a problem.
I'm puzzled by this:
1. Precomposed accented characters, I have read, are included in support of
legacy character sets; the ideal is to use a combining accent with a
non-accented character.
2. There are issues with combining accents needing to account for the
height of the base letter, dots, as well, no doubt, as ascenders and
descenders. These are semantic issues, which should be handled by the
software.
3. Unicode, it is said, is a plain text standard.
(2) and (3) seem to be at odds, unless programs that display plain text
become a lot more sophisticated.
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