The question was:
>What criteria would you use for determining these properties? How would
>you determine which characters should be identified as "spoof buddies"
>(after you've gotten the easy cases like Latin/Greek/Cyrillic A out of
>the way)?
There is a very valuable feature in English edition of Word XP: when you
insert symbols you can see their full Unicode names in the symbol box.
Unfortunately this feature was disabled in Russian edition of Word XP. May
be it seemed quite logical to remove this feature in order not to mix up
Russian menus with English names of the letters.
But in this case I would ask people responsible for that not to disable this
feature in future Russian editions of Office. It would help not only to
detect "spoof buddies" but also allows easier input of IPA diacritics.
Because even with 1024x768 resolution on 15" monitor it is difficult to tell
dots from rings.
Thank you, Vladimir Ivanov
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