From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 - 16:12:34 CDT
On 24/10/2007, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:
>
> A. This question isn't really about *languages*, but about writing systems
> (or orthographies) used to write languages. As an example, take
> standard Mandarin Chinese. If written with the Han writing system
> (the Chinese ideographic characters), it basically requires no
> use of combining marks. If written with the Pinyin Latin orthography,
> there are precomposed characters for all the letters.
Nearly all. If you remember a couple of years back Hong Kong wanted
precomposed letters added for E/e-circumflex plus macron/caron, which
are pinyin alternatives for ēi and ěi, but that was a non-starter, so
even for something as simple as pinyin you would need to support
combining characters (<00CA 0304>, <00CA 030C>, <00EA 0304> and <00EA
030C>).
Andrew
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