Re: Combining marks with two letters

From: Bob Hallissy (Bob_Hallissy@sil.org)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 14:26:03 CST

  • Next message: James Kass: "Re: Combining marks with two letters"

    Andreas Prilop wrote on 11/02/2008 13:43:48:

    > The LoC romanization rules for Abkhaz(ian) Cyrillic
    > show a "ts" digraph with a ligature tie or arc above them
    > and a centered dot above this arc
    >
    > How do you write this in Unicode?

    Unicode 5.0 addresses this directly on page 500, where it says:

    Occasionally one runs across orthographic conventions that use a dot, an
    acute accent, or
    other simple diacritic above a ligature tie?that is, U+0361 combining
    double inverted
    breve. Because of the considerations of canonical order just discussed,
    one cannot represent
    such text simply by putting a combining dot above or combining acute
    directly after
    U+0361 in the text. Instead, the recommended way of representing such text
    is to place
    U+034F combining grapheme joiner (CGJ) between the ligature tie and the
    combining
    mark that follows it, as shown in Figure 7-10.

    Because this is a relatively recent Unicode ruling, there are not yet many
    fonts that will render this sequence correctly. but there is no question
    that this is the correct encoding.

    Bob



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon Feb 11 2008 - 14:28:16 CST