Re: Contrastive use of kratka and breve

Sounds to me that what you really want is to have two different breve
characters
(assuming that the distinction is real and intentional, and not a
happenstance).
That would require encoding a new combining character, AFAICT...

/Kent K

Den 2014-07-02 20:48, skrev "Leo Broukhis" <leob_at_mailcom.com>:

> Jukka,
>
> If the font happens to have lunar breve at U+0306, whereas the letter é has
> the rounded bowl breve, using CGJ should guarantee to achieve distinctive
> rendering, because <è, CGJ, U+0306> is not canonically equivalent to  <è,
> U+0306> (cf. "The sequences <a, umlaut> and <a, CGJ, umlaut> are not
> canonically equivalent.") and therefore the renderer must not be allowed to
> pick the glyph for é instead as its canonical composition. This is a hack, but
> a legal hack.
>
> Leo
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>> 2014-07-02 20:34, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>>
>>> CGJ would be better used to prevent canonical compositions but it won't
>>> normally give a distinctive semantic.
>>
>> In the question, visual difference was desired. The Unicode FAQ says:
>> “The semantics of CGJ are such that it should impact only searching and
>> sorting, for systems which have been tailored to distinguish it, while being
>> otherwise ignored in interpretation. The CGJ character was encoded with this
>> purpose in mind.”
>> http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html
>> <http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html>
>>
>> So CGJ is to be used when you specifically want the same rendering but wish
>> to make a distinction in processing.
>>
>> Yucca
>>
>>
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