In a message dated 2001-09-26 8:09:18 Pacific Daylight Time,
everson@evertype.com writes:
>> The problem is, I have a couple of German texts that I plan to
>> transcribe, where all I need is HYPHEN WITH DIARESIS.
>
> So, you type HYPHEN or EN DASH and then COMBINING DIAERESIS ABOVE.
I think that was David's point, that these things are always possible using
combining characters, and the argument "but it's easier with a precomposed
character" doesn't stand up to the concerns about proliferation and
normalization.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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