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Re: ucs-normalize and diacritics
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: ucs-normalize and diacritics |
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Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:14:52 +0200 |
Cesar Crusius <address@hidden> writes:
> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Cesar Crusius <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>> How common is 3-character composition likely to be? (for that matter,
>>>> how common is 2-character composition? I explicitly use input methods
>>>> for this kind of stuff). I can envisage an algorithm that takes a
>>>> combining character, then scans backwards to see if the font used for
>>>> it will cover all previous characters, recursively. It does seem like
>>>> a lot of effort for a small return.
>>>
>>> Recalling a recent discussion, they are unavoidable in polytonic
>>> Greek, because Unicode does not provide the pre-combined
>>> character. There's no other way to get an "rough breathing long alpha
>>> with acute accent," ᾱ̔́. (Which by the way Emacs handles nicely with the
>>> font I use, Iosevka.)
>>
>> Even that is only a two character composition (unless Iʼve
>> misunderstood the what-cursor-position output), and itʼs rather
>> specialized, and you know what youʼre doing :-)
>
> There are three characters in total, ᾱ plus ̔plus ́.
Youʼre right, Iʼd missed the final combining accent.
Robert
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