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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:23:49 -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 Sun, May 21, 2006 at 02:12:03PM -0400, Joel Salomon wrote:
> On 5/19/06, quanstro@quanstro.net <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >this is valid unicode
> >        u+0069 u+0300 u+0301 u+0302 u+0303
> >all those combining codepoints attach to the base cp u+0069.  figure out 
> >how to build
> >that glyph.
> 
> The Gentium font makes a fair try.

  <horror>
  So that's how original looked like!
  </horror>

  The romanized spelling in the upper window is pretty convoluted. What
  they were trying to accomplish with that special "accent" is convey
  the idea of "ia" being a single letter in the original language. 
  And of course the letter itself doesn't have any "accents" in it. :-(

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. Why would they use a second "accent" over the empty space between
two words still escapes me, though...