<humour>
Unicode has a wide range of combining characters including esoteric ones
like U+033C COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW. A notable omission is COMBINING WHITE
DRAGON ABOVE. The white dragon is an Oriental symbol of spirituality, and is
perhaps best known in Western circles from its use on Mahjong tiles.
Although intended for use with CJKV texts, COMBINING WHITE DRAGON ABOVE
interacts with other characters in the normal way, e.g. i and j lose
their dot.
I appreciate that the UTC wishes to avoid including additional precomposed
forms, but could they consider adding LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH WHITE DRAGON
to the standard as well as the combining character?
</humour, well not so dry anyway>
Many of you will not have seen white dragons in CJKV texts. This is
to be expected since white dragons are completely invisible.
They are no doubt very hard to paint since the brush must not touch the
paper. All those scales must be very tricky...
Perhaps Michael could do a sample for us. (But don't make it too big, or it
will increase the printing width of narrow letters like i.)
Tim
-- Tim Partridge. Any opinions expressed are mine only and not those of my employer
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