Re: Accents of the same combining class displayed side by side

From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Fri Nov 07 2008 - 04:45:25 CST

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    Am Freitag, 7. November 2008 um 00:10 schrieb Michael Everson:

    >> Teuthonista, which uses doubled diacritics commonly, uses circumflexes
    >> side by side, while it stacks diaereses, breves and inverted breves.
    >> The paired circumflexes are connected and may look like a turned
    >> sans-serif w.
    ME> That one is not two characters, but a single character.

    I agree.
    It appears anyway that paired diacritics tend to be encoded as
    separate characters anyway, the most recent example being U+1DFD
    COMBINING ALMOST EQUAL TO BELOW (in FPDAM6), being two stacked tildes
    below.
    Thus, regarding Teuthonista, the following diacritics seem to be
    encoding candidates also:
    COMBINING TWOFOLD INVERTED BREVE ABOVE
    COMBINING TWOFOLD INVERTED BREVE BELOW
    COMBINING TWOFOLD BREVE BELOW
    (I used TWOFOLD here, as DOUBLE is already used for all three of
    these, indicating "spanning over two base letters").
    (btw, if such a naming pattern is accepted, COMBINING TWOFOLD TILDE
     BELOW may be a better name for U+1DFD, which is not fixed yet
     as it is in FPDAM stage now.)

    - Karl Pentzlin



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