From: Chris Jacobs (chris.jacobs@freeler.nl)
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 07:36:18 CDT
> True enough, but then you still have to trust the software and answer
> the question "how do I know that I know?". Most people in the world are
> not capable of writing a perl script. And suppose you have a document
> being passed around and proofread by people using a variety of software.
> How can you be sure the encoding doesn't get munged somewhere along
> the line? The simplest and most reliable way (IMO) is to have a
> transparent proofreader's font of some kind.
If you insist on doing it the wrong way then use UniPad.
That has a built-in font that does what you want.
But get it _now_ before this error is repaired :-)
{quote}
Combining characters are handled rather simple in the current version of
UniPad. They are rendered as spacing characters in the way they are depicted
in the Unicode code charts. For example the accent character U+030C
COMBINING CARON is depicted as and occupies a character position like any
other character. The dots indicate a placeholder for a base character that
should combine with the accent.
Normally U+0072 LATIN LETTER SMALL R and U+030C COMBINING CARON should be
rendered as ř.
However with UniPad the characters are displayed separated as r ̌.
The current implementation does not allow automatic combination of combining
characters with the base characters. This will change in a future version of
UniPad.
{/quote}
[ I could not copy the ř and the r ̌ well, but anyway, they look
differently.]
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