Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it> wrote:
>> And judging from Marco's unrelated post about Yoruba q-tilde,
>> in which I
>> *did* see the tilde positioned correctly (more or less) over the q, I
>> guess support is more advanced than I thought. Terrific.
>
> Probably you didn't mean this, however: I don't think that q with tilde
is
> an actual Yoruba letter.
<shrug/> Nobody knows less about Yoruba than I do.
> I just used it as an example of an accented character not having a
> corresponding precomposite sequence. (BTW: "q" came natural as a base
> letter, because of an old joke on Italian TV about a "q with an accent".
Of
> course, the comic actor who repeated that joke on TV did not know that
> Unicode was under development at the same age).
If anything, that proves even more convincingly that support for arbitrary
combinations is progressing nicely.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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