Re: German 0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 15:13:41 EST

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    Philippe Verdy scripsit:

    > I would have prefered to see sharp-s replaced first by long-s + s, and then
    > only by s + s if long-s is not available; after all the compatibility
    > equivalent of long-s is the common s.

    The effect of setting the compatibility decomposition to long-s + s would
    have been the same, since decompositions are applied recursively.
    An application that knows what it is doing can map sharp-s to long-s + s;
    as a practical matter, however, sharp-s is far more available than long-s,
    since the former is in current use an the latter is not.

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