From: John Delacour (JD@BD8.COM)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 13:43:30 EST
At 5:27 pm +0100 28/12/03, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>why is the German "ess-tsett" (sharp S) given a
>compatibility decomposition as <s><s> instead of <long-s><s>? What other
>languages don't assume the <long-s> meaning for the first character of the
>decomposition?
Have a look at some of Cervantes' and Montaigne's letters. I haven't
got them in front of me at the moment, but you will find also in
English that the order is not constant even when position is taken
into account.
JD
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