Re: Compound combining marks

From: James Cloos (cloos@jhcloos.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 23:18:44 CST

Next message: Peter Constable: "RE: Compound combining marks"

Previous message: David J. Perry: "Compound combining marks"
In reply to: David J. Perry: "Compound combining marks"
Next in thread: Peter Constable: "RE: Compound combining marks"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

>>>>> "David" == David J Perry <hospes@scholarsfonts.net> writes:

David> I notice that Unicode 5.0 has several compound combining marks
David> (macron plus acute, etc.) at U+1DC4..1DC9.

I made that same mis-assumption about those character based on their
names. A look at the code chart at:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.0.0/charts/CodeCharts-5.0.0d1.pdf

shows that they are not two diacritics but rather a blend.

Eg, macron-acute starts out like a macron and takes a sharp turn up
at the halfway point, akin to the acute. Something like this bad
ascii art of « U+0223 U+1DC4 »:

,------------
| _/
| ou
`------------

(That is LATIN SMALL LETTER OU with COMBINING MACRON-ACUTE.)

-JimC

-- 
James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com>

Next message: Peter Constable: "RE: Compound combining marks"
Previous message: David J. Perry: "Compound combining marks"
In reply to: David J. Perry: "Compound combining marks"
Next in thread: Peter Constable: "RE: Compound combining marks"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Mar 14 2006 - 23:22:43 CST