Re: problem with combining diacritcs in HTML5

From: Bill Poser <billposer2_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 10:57:53 -0700

Yes, precisely. It's the combining behaviour that matters, not the
distinction between the two slightly different low lines.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi>wrote:

> 2012-10-09 20:32, Bill Poser wrote:
>
> No, I was contrasting the behaviour of s followed by U+0332, for which
>> there is no precomposed letter, with U+1E95, which is the precomposed
>> equivalent of z followed by U+0332.
>>
>
> You meant to write “followed by U+0331” at the end. But in any case, this
> is a matter of contrasting a letter followed by a combining diacritic (a
> “decomposed letter”) with a precomposed character. You could equally well
> have contrasted U+0332 with its canonical decomposition; in HTML terms,
>
> &#x1e95;<br>
> z&#x332;
>
> These render differently (except on Firefox), when e.g. Courier New is
> used.
>
> Yucca
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