From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 03:36:16 EDT
Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:20020423032923.18748.qmail@web9606.mail.yahoo.com:
> Combining characters are now possible with Unicode for
> western languages but nobody is using them yet.
Well, I have been using them for a few occations. Mozilla supports
them, at least somewhat (it uses superimposing glyphs).
>> As for undoing a decomposed character (e.g. e´), I
>> think it's safe
>> to undo all characters back to (and including) the
>> last non-
>> combining character. For example if you write e´
>
> Don't confuse your precomposed é above with combining
> characters.
I don't. If a document contains e´ (where ´ is a combining ´),
pressing backspace should delete both characters, not just the ´.
> Normalization is a different subject which mostly
> comes into play with searching and sorting - it's
> probably only going to be confusing to mention it
> here.
> Though maybe we do need to discuss whether AbiWord
> should normalize all characters in its internal
> representation...
Since AbiWord uses XML as its file format, the document should
(not must) be normalized according to Normalization Form C. There
was some talk about making it a requirement for the next version
of XML, cf. <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#sec2.13 >, but this
will most likely not happen.
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer
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