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From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:21:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a50cbe899c3624f51b9c24d88f6ae979@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <446E381D.1040805@gmail.com>

that is precicely the most problematic case.  there is insufficient information in a bitmap font
to build an accented letter from a base codepoint + {combining codepoints}*.

- erik


On Fri May 19 16:28:05 CDT 2006, viriketo@gmail.com wrote:

> I've mostly used unicode diacritic mark "'" as in á, é, ś, ... (to be 
> composed over characters) specially over cyrillic characters, because 
> I'm learning Russian. There are no accented cyrillic letters in Unicode. 
> For a learner of the Russian language it's totally needed, if the main 
> source is written text. I hope that fits into that 97% of the future 
> (soon?) working solution.
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-19 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-19 14:36 rog
2006-05-19 15:11 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 16:16   ` quanstro
2006-05-19 21:03   ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 21:26     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 21:21       ` quanstro [this message]
2006-05-19 21:45     ` jmk
2006-05-19 21:57       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-19 21:51         ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:04           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-19 22:16             ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:34               ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-19 22:35                 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 23:40                   ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-19 23:43                     ` quanstro
2006-05-20  0:12                       ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20  0:13                         ` quanstro
2006-05-20  0:43                           ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20  0:44                             ` quanstro
2006-05-20  4:13                               ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-21 18:10                               ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-21 18:12                               ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-25  0:23                                 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-27 19:41                               ` Dan Cross
2006-05-27 20:15                                 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-05-28  1:49                                   ` LiteStar numnums
2006-05-20  0:59                             ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-20  0:51                               ` quanstro
2006-05-20  1:43                                 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20  1:38                               ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20  1:59                                 ` Federico Benavento
2006-05-25  0:24                                   ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20  3:59                                 ` geoff
2006-05-20 10:56                                 ` Lucio De Re
2006-05-20 11:04                                   ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-20  0:18                         ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-21 18:11                         ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 22:40                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-19 22:36                   ` quanstro
2006-05-19 23:28                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-19 22:54             ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 22:50               ` quanstro
2006-05-20  1:05                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-05-21 17:52                 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-22  4:04                   ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 22:29         ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 22:22           ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:45             ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-22 22:55 erik quanstrom
2006-05-23  4:58 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-23 10:07 erik quanstrom
2006-05-23 14:24 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-05-23 17:07   ` plan9
2006-05-23 17:11     ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-05-23 18:53     ` Charles Forsyth
2006-05-23 20:09     ` Harri Haataja
2006-05-25  0:31     ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-25  2:34       ` Andy Newman

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