From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 07:37:31 EDT
--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com> wrote: >
Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote in
>
news:20020423040343.94541.qmail@web9605.mail.yahoo.com:
>
> > Again, these are not combining characters - these
> are
> > precomposed characters.
>
> They may or may not be pre-composed characters. An é
> can be
> written *either* as a 'é' or as 'e´'.
They may be, but I don't know of any keymap on any OS
that uses composed characters for any roman-based
language other than Vietnamese.
> > I'm not aware of any system
> > that returns a combining character sequence on
> > pressing a single key or on using a dead key
> > combination.
>
> Neither do I (probably because so few programs
> support Unicode,
> and the most used Latin characters exist in
> pre-composed form).
As I've said before, combining characters are not only
the domain of Unicode, 8-bit Vietnamese and Thai
encodings have used them for years.
> But characters may come from other sources, e.g.
> AbiWord documents
> converted from other formats (or manually edited),
> manually
> inserted characters (using Alt+nnnn or 'Insert
> Symbol').
Cutting and pasting, coming from spellchecker
suggestions.
Andrew Dunbar.
> --
> Karl Ove Hufthammer
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