Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> If you want to see them, go to the Unicode Standard, Version 1.0, page
> 180, where they are printed larger than life:
I had understood that Unicode 1.0 was now unavailable.
> Decompositions are done for the *characters*, not for
> the *glyphs*. And for Latin uppercase/lowercase pairs, it is an
> ironclad rule that a canonical decompositions must involve the same sequence
> of combining marks.
This is doubtless a fine rule, but (like all fine rules) ought to be
documented somewhere. I have never heard it before.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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