Re: lists of actual character/diacritic combinations

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 14:14:32 EST

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Blunderingly I wrote:

> Since HORN is not applied to any
> other letters, I wonder why it was analyzed out by the Unicode
> designers (only saved 3 codepoints).

Of course the precomposed forms are present too, so nothing was saved.
Thanks to Joan for letting me know about the bibliographic ISO
standard: is the technical content online anywhere?

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