Re: German 0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E

From: John Delacour (JD@BD8.COM)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 13:43:30 EST

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    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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