From: Cristian Secară (orice@secarica.ro)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2006 - 16:32:32 CST
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:02:33 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
> There is not necessarily a 1-to-1 correspondence between "Unicode
> characters" and "letters in the alphabet used by a particular
> language."
I know that this is the official Unicode policy, only that I am
wondering what was the reason for inclusion of several combining Latin
characters in the 1E00 range, of which, in theory, most of them can be
obtained via combining diacritical marks.
> How do users in Amis and Paiwan type this letter on a typewriter or
> computer keyboard?
Perhaps with a custom built keyboard layout, like it is required for
other sophysticated Unicode usage.
How do users of Linux and/or Windows type combining diacritical
marks on a daily basis ?
>> [...] so, when deleting a combining accent all preceding
>> characters up to the base character and following combining
>> accents, which belong to the same sequence get deleted too.
> That is already how proper Unicode-enabled software is supposed to
> work.
Hm. Supposing I type by mistake the wrong combining diacritical mark,
then when I want to make the correction (by hitting backspace once) I
have to retype the main character too ?
Cristi
-- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/
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