From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 22:55:42 EDT
Peter Kirk <peter dot r dot kirk at ntlworld dot com> wrote:
> Suppose for example I want to write a sentence like "In this language
> the diacritic ^ may appear above the letters ...", but instead of ^ I
> want to use a combining character, a regularly positioned centred
> above the letter diacritic, which does not have a defined spacing
> variant. I don't want a dotted circle. And I want it to be spaced as
> here, i.e. with one space before the diacritic and one after it. It
> seems to me that at one place in the standard I am told to encode
> space - combining mark - space, for the combining mark will not
> combine with the space because the space is not a base character; and
> in another place I am implicitly told to encode space - space -
> combining mark - space, because the second space acts as a carrier for
> the combining mark.
space + (space + combining character) + space
> Perhaps a simple way ahead would be to define a new character
> something like COMBINING MARK HOLDER...
Uhh, no.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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