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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Amharic: broken.  I could see the escape codes rather then the characters.
> > Lao: Partially broken.  Some visible escape sequences.
> > Tigrigna: Same as Amharic.
> 
> These are all, er, weird coding systems.  Or, at least, they use weird 
> MULE charsets -- `composition'.  What *is* that?

This is where you use base characters and modifiers to build up a
single character or glyph.  (I'm using very informal language here.)
An example of composition for roman characters: `A' composed with `¨'
becomes `Ä'.  Unicode has a lot of these composing characters, and
some character sets lend themselves to this form of representation.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
.