Re: undo and combining characters

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 11:44:15 EDT

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    According to Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com>:

    > > I don't. If a document contains e´ (where ´ is a
    > > combining ´),
    > > pressing backspace should delete both characters,
    > > not just the ´.
    >
    > This is not how Vietnamese works on Windows which is
    > the only combining character language in wide use.
    > Does anybody know how Unix or Mac handle Vietnamese?

    On MacOS 9, I think that a specific charset (think script in MacOS
    terminology) is used. That means special fonts, etc.

    I'm not 100% however. For MacOS X, it is another story as Carbon may
    use the same hackery while Cocoa uses Unicode.

    Hub

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