From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:51:51 -0500 From: quanstro@quanstro.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40605191457o5aa92381l2a016f370ca65245@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5242184c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 =C3=A1 is a single codepoint. sure. but there are useful letters that d= on't exist in unicode unless they are composed. e.g. romanized russian, accented cyrillic, etc. - erik On Fri May 19 17:00:38 CDT 2006, nemo@lsub.org wrote: > I think that =C3=A1 is just a single rune, not two different ones compo= sed. If > to type them, you have to type several keys, it=C2=B4s just a keyboard = issue, > isn=C2=B4t it? I don=C2=B4t understand why this could go to a upper lay= er. Is there > any other problem? (besides having to use utf8 for i/o, I mean).