Re: Double Macrons on gh (was Re: Tildes on Vowels)

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 14:56:39 EDT


James Kass asked:

> > Please note that both the UTC and WG2 have approved a new set
> > of combining double accents:
> >
> > U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE
> > U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON
> > U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE LOW LINE
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Now, the question is, how long will it take for the fonts and
> > browsers to catch up on those forms, as well??
> >
>
> The other double combiner marks already work fairly well in default
> position in existing browsers. These ought to work right out-of-the-
> box, once fonts include glyphs.
>
> Is it safe to include glyphs for the above referenced characters now?

Well none of the Unicode 4.0 extensions will be entirely safe to
use until after the December WG2 meeting in Tokyo.

But my personal opinion is that these 3 are pretty unlikely to
be disturbed by comments in national balloting between now
and then.

--Ken



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