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Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 18:43:14 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
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eh?  you speak russian. ;-)

no.  the unicode sequences (e.g. U+0069 U+0361) are correct.
i checked this and several other examples with the actual books.

i think you misunderstand how unicode works.  a base cp
like U+0069 followed by a combining cp like U+0361 
make a single character.  this identification is called "composition".
unicode contains some precomposed cps, but not U+0069 U+0361.

if you think this makes unicode bizarre, then join the club.  but
it does not mean that U+0069 U+0361 is an invalid unicode sequence
which represents a single character.

- erik

On Fri May 19 18:41:24 CDT 2006, rvs@sun.com wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:35:10PM -0500, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> > the thing you're missing is that there is no precombined form
> > of {X+combining double breve} for any roman letter X that i know of.
> > this means that most utf renderers will give you either "X?" or ?.
> 
>   Well, but the language in question is Russian. In Russian, both of
>   the symbols which can be seen as compound are unique symbols. 
> 
>   Of course, that only means, that whoever was entering the title
>   into the system made a mistake in using wrong unicode.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.