Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 09:32:37 CST

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    On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:13 AM, <Vladas.Tumasonis@mif.vu.lt> wrote:
    > vunzndi@vfemail.net rašė:
    >
    >> Quoting "Don Osborn" <dzo@bisharat.net>:
    >>
    >>> A couple of quick questions. First, about how long would the list of
    >>> cominations be?
    >>>
    >>
    >> Very long, though a worth while list, over a thousand, so let's say
    >> thousands of combinations.
    >>
    >
    > We, in Lithuanian philology, really have more than 4.000 of such
    > combinations. See http://www.mif.vu.lt/~vladas/Palemonas.htm

    But that's not what's being counted; we know that philology and
    mathematics and probably other disciplines can generate almost
    arbitrary combinations. This list is a list of characters used in
    languages.

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