Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 23:23:33 CST

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    Karl Pentzlin <karl dash pentzlin at acssoft dot de> wrote:

    >> ... which gives us a tighter limit of 3,600 combinations
    >
    > If you take into account that:
    > - a lot of people (e.g. linguists and writers of North American
    > indigenous languages) use to attach 3 diacritical marks onto a base
    > letter,

    I think the phrase "a lot of people" greatly overstates the matter.

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