Re: Tildes on vowels

From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 13:03:02 EDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew C. West" <andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Tildes on vowels

> Personally I think that markup may be more appropriate, given the
countless possible permutations of
> combining/superscript letters that may be encountered in mediaeval texts
in various languages.

Why not just add *two* characters, either to the PUA or to Unicode?

U+XXXX = COMBINING LETTER ABOVE INDICATOR
U+XXXY = SUPERSCRIPT LETTER INDICATOR

This means that U+XXXX directly followed by "a" is a combining "a" above,
and that U+XXXY directly followed by "a" is a superscript "a".

This means some normalisation issues:

U+0061 U+0363 ≡ U+0061 U+XXXX U+0061
U+00AA ≡ U+XXXY U+0061
etc.

Stefan

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