Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 - 17:58:21 CDT

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    On 24/10/2007, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
    >
    > Andrew West wrote:
    > > 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>).
    >
    > Hmmm... Some confusion here: a "macron" <U+0304> (horizontal stroke above)
    > is NOT a caron <U+30C>, and your ***turned down**** "circumflex" is in fact
    > IS the "caron" <U+30C>... The normal "circumflex" is another one <U+0302>
    > and it occurs in many precomposed letters.

    欸 (ê̌) ?

    [U+6B38 (U+00EA U+030C ) ?]

    Andrew



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