From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 08:07:33 EST
I just took TextEdit and typed option-n-o shift-option-m which should
get me o-tilde + ogonek. Then I typed option-m-o shift-option-n which
should get me o-ogonek + tilde. (Don't worry about the keystrokes,
that's dependeng on the input driver.) Now I saw the glyphs on the
screen, and they weren't identical; in the first, the ogonek wasn't
quite touching the base character and in the second the tilde was
marginally higher than in the first. This doesn't alarm me because
it's dependent on glyph tables, and Lucida Grande didn't have the
precomposed triple.
What does confuse me is that I then tried to search for the strings,
and I found that the Find engine considered the two strings to be
different. Should it?
(I also found that when I saved and closed the file and reopened it,
the combining ogonek was stripped out, which I suppose must be a bug.)
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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