From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 16:35:44 EDT
Peter Kirk asked:
> If I want to do this, should I explicitly encode a dotted circle, or
> should I encode nothing and expect the font to generate the dotted
> circle, as it often does?
If you want to represent the text content of a dotted circle with
an accent on it, the recommended representation would be, for
example:
<25CC, 0301>
A compliant renderer that supports those characters should always
then display a dotted circle with an acute accent over it.
If you just leave a <0301> in isolation, then you are at
the mercy of what a renderer might do in a fallback situation
for a defective combining character sequence. It *might* show
it on a dotted circle, or it might show it in some other way.
And if that combining character is in any other context, it
may end up being misapplied to the wrong preceding character --
wrong in the sense that that was not your intention.
--Ken
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