RE: Rendering of sequences containing double diacritic (was Re: Bantu click letters)

From: James Kass (jameskass@att.net)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 12:51:10 CDT

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    Peter Constable wrote,

    > Don't forget canonical equivalence (I forgot about this as well): the
    > double-width diacritics have a combining class of 234 rather than 230.
    > This means that 0251 0361 0302 028A is canonically equivalent to 0251
    > 0302 0361 028A. Therefore, the first (for better or worse) should appear
    > just the way Doulos SIL renders it.

    and later wrote,

    >
    > That rule applies to combining marks in the *same* canonical combining
    > class. In this case, they are in different classes.

    Sure enough! Thanks. I didn't even think to check the combining class,
    both were marks above.

    Doesn't this mean that it isn't possible to stack a combining circumflex
    above a combining spanning inverted breve? Does this mean we'd need
    double-wide clones of all the combining marks in order to support such
    combos?

    (Well, at least I can give up on trying to make it display right here.)

    Best regards,

    James Kass



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