>This problem isn't unique to Dinka, you'll find it exists in other african
and
>some australian aboriginal languages. So teh question is ... how should
one
>handle kllangauges that use combinations of latin letters and diacritics
and
>where a precomposed form does not exist?
There are literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of languages with this
issue. There's at least one language in Peru that has to stack diacritics
three high!
How do you handle these? You wait till the rendering technology catches up,
or you build your own (e.g. Graphite) and build apps that work on that. I
suspect (or, at least, certainly hope) we'll see progress in this regard in
IE 6.
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
Tel: +1 972 708 7485
E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
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