RE: Multiple diacritics

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2005 - 18:57:58 CDT

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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Chris Jacobs

> > 1. U+0268 latin small letter i with stroke combined with an accute
accent
>
> The correct way: use a font which supports ligatures and define a
ligature
> for U+0268 + accent.
>
> A quick hack: use a turkish dotless i with a combining overlay U+0335

If at all possible, avoid quick hacks -- they grow into long-term
headaches.

The solution is to use software and fonts that support dynamic
composition of combining marks (using mechanisms such as
contextually-determined alternate glyphs, ligatures and mark positioning
based on anchors).

The Doulos SIL font used with Word 2003 is an example of a solution that
does what you want.

Peter Constable

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