Re: *Why* are precomposed characters required for "backward compatibility"?

From: David Hopwood (david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 03:20:17 EDT


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David Hopwood wrote:
> "French uses the accents acute ( ́), grave ( ̀), circumflex ( ̑),
> diaeresis ( ̈), and cedilla ( ̧)."

Oops, that's not a circumflex. I'll blame the tiny font size and lack of
character name feedback in Character Map.

(Feature request for Unibook: double-clicking on a character appends
it to the clipboard.)

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