RE: Proposal to encode three combining diacritical marks for Low German dialect writing

From: Kent Karlsson (kent.karlsson14@comhem.se)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 04:05:43 CST

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    > Kent Karlsson wrote:
    > > I don't see why there should be any problem in principle to encode
    > > COMBINING PARENTHESISED DOUBLE RIGHT HOOK BELOW, COMBINING
    > > PARENTHESISED DIAERESIS BELOW, COMBINING FAT TILDE, etc.
    >
    > If memory serves, extIPA uses U+207D SUPERSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS,
    > U+207E SUPERSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS, U+208D SUBSCRIPT LEFT
    > PARENTHESIS, and U+208E SUBSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS for parenthesized
    > diacritics. These would probably be preferable to separate
    > parenthesized combining marks.

    That may work as a hack. But those parentheses are super- and subscripts,
    and will not (nor should they) tightly bracket the (first level) diacritic.

                    /kent k

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