Re: Stacking Thai marks, stacking Hebrew marks?

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Elaine Keown wrote:

> In the current Unicode Standard, is there a numeric limit to how many things---multiple systems of vowel points, text annotation systems, etc----can be stacked onto a base character?

There is no limit in principle. If you have a text consisting of a
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A followed by one million COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENTs,
you may have trouble rendering it properly on screen or printer --- but
that's a side issue.

> If some of the stacked items REALLY belong to the base character, but others are actually "attached" to a specific syllable or the word involved, they just appear above a base character, what does Unicode do?

You place such combining characters after the base character they are
going to appear over, under, or inside of, and never mind the apparent
semantics.

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