From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 09:39:15 EDT
"Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote on 06/03/2003 07:25:46 AM:
> How do you consider the existing "hook" diacritic ?
If you're talking about U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE, I don't think it
normally attaches. In fact, it's combining class is 230 'above' and not 214
'above attached'.
> Attached
> diacritics are already encoded. We can use them as a good fallback
> system in their context, so that the text will e mostly readable but
> users that are not aware of that specific usage.
They are marginally good as a fallback. For anything beyond a fallback, the
problems are several, and the reality is that usually there are only a
small number of base characters anybody ever expects them to be used with.
Now, please note that I am generalizing; there may certainly be exceptions.
- Peter
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