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From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:35:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c902098fa1d347c189c2c5a334b4106a@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060519223444.GI14223@submarine>

i should have said "glyph."

the thing you're missing is that there is no precombined form
of {X+combining double breve} for any roman letter X that i know of.
this means that most utf renderers will give you either "X�" or �.

not having a precombined form is a pain.

- erik

On Fri May 19 17:35:43 CDT 2006, rvs@sun.com wrote:
> > 
> > CA: Corporate Author
> >     Nizhegorodskai?a? gosudarstvennai?a?
> >     sel?skokhozi?a?i?stvennai?a? akademii?a?
> > 
> > the character that probablly doesn't look right is a combining double breve.
> 
>   What ?!?! How come this character ended up being a compound one ? The fact
>   that it looks like one when rendered doesn't deprive it from being unique.
> 
>   Or am I missing something here ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-19 22:35 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
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 [this message]
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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