From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:22:46 -0500 From: quanstro@quanstro.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters In-Reply-To: <446E46D8.70007@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 525b1202-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri May 19 17:30:53 CDT 2006, viriketo@gmail.com wrote: > Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > I think that =C3=A1 is just a single rune, not two different ones com= posed. If > > to type them, you have to type several keys, it=C2=B4s just a keyboar= d issue, > > isn=C2=B4t it? I don=C2=B4t understand why this could go to a upper l= ayer. Is there > > any other problem? (besides having to use utf8 for i/o, I mean). >=20 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_diacritical_mark >=20 > Think about languages having many diacritical marks (Arabic, Annamese,=20 > Kannada,...), not only about Spanish. Wouldn't you feel there is too=20 > much 'duplicated' information in those glyphs of that small 16bit space= ? no.