Re: [9fans] combining characters

[quanstro@quanstro.net]

>> yet another is how one should deal with character-based indexing, for instance
>> indexing in sam expressions - does /é/-#0+#1 point to the character after
>> the unadorned e, or after the whole sequence?

>thair be dragons here.  the library of congress has a 100-page manual on alphebetization
>of languages with roman letters.  different languages have different rules (sometimes for the 
>same codepoint); a language sometimes has different rules for different codepoints.
>then there are ligatures.  in german ss and ß are sorted the same. 

uff.  this answer doesn't fit the question.  i think base+combiner* should be treated as 
an indivisible character.  but again, if we use cannonical compositions, this case can be
avoided except in cases where the character can't be drawn anyway.

- erik