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Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:34:45 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:16:22PM -0500, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> i was really suprised by this, too.
> 
> i did a bit of work for a company that does searchable literature a couple
> of months ago.  they were having trouble with "bad unicode".  the problem
>  was stuff like this:
> 
> CA: Corporate Author
>     Nizhegorodskai?a? gosudarstvennai?a?
>     sel?skokhozi?a?i?stvennai?a? akademii?a?
> 
> the character that probablly doesn't look right is a combining double breve.

  What ?!?! How come this character ended up being a compound one ? The fact
  that it looks like one when rendered doesn't deprive it from being unique.

  Or am I missing something here ?

Thanks,
Roman.