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Subject: Re: diacritics (was: Re: [9fans] don't shoot me)
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:05:14 -0700
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> Showing combining diacritics in Plan9 doesn't require a lot of changes.

if you just want to show them, you're probably right and i think  your
change might do it.  but if you want to use them - select, cut, paste, etc.,
i think a lot of change is required, or at best a little change in a lot of
places.  the algorithms managing editable text all implicitly assume the
characters have positive width.

-rob