quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> On Fri May 19 17:30:53 CDT 2006, viriketo@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>Francisco J Ballesteros wrote:
>>
>>>I think that á is just a single rune, not two different ones composed. If
>>>to type them, you have to type several keys, it´s just a keyboard issue,
>>>isn´t it? I don´t understand why this could go to a upper layer. Is there
>>>any other problem? (besides having to use utf8 for i/o, I mean).
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_diacritical_mark
>>
>>Think about languages having many diacritical marks (Arabic, Annamese, 
>>Kannada,...), not only about Spanish. Wouldn't you feel there is too 
>>much 'duplicated' information in those glyphs of that small 16bit space?
> 
> 
> no.
That called "unicode 4.0" comes with 96,248 graphic characters.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/