From: Noah Levitt (nlevitt@columbia.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 20:36:14 EDT
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:57:11 -0700, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> Kent asked:
>
> > How should a freestanding double diacritic be encoded (for purposes of
> > meta-discussions, and the like): <SPACE, dbl diacritic> or <SPACE, dbl
> > diacritic, SPACE>?
>
> It *could* be represented as <SPACE, dbl_diacritic, SPACE>, of course,
> or for that matter <SPACE, dbl_diacritic, TAB>, or other possibilities.
> The combining character sequence, in either case, is the
> <SPACE, dbl_diacritic> sequence.
How should a text rendering library deal with <SPACE,
dbl_diacritic>? Should the character after the diacritic be
drawn under the right half of the diacritic, or beyond its
rightmost ink?
Noah
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