From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from danbala.tuwien.ac.at (danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.168.64]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2HM0X4P013385 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:00:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by danbala.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix, from userid 116) id 69B993921AD; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:00:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:00:33 +0100 From: Thomas Klausner To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: distinct character, same glyph in Unicode Message-ID: <20110317220033.GB22396@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20110316211219.GA15999@harkle.bramka> <20110316222835.GB15999@harkle.bramka> <20110316223702.GB12736@iris.usta.de> <20110317000813.GC15999@harkle.bramka> <20110317012423.GE12736@iris.usta.de> <20110317190150.GA29893@iris.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110317190150.GA29893@iris.usta.de> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 08:01:50PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Thus, the French ":o" (o diaeresis) - note that the Grand Robert > explicitely lists this one as occurring in natively French words - > is clearly not the same character as the German ":o" (o umlaut). > Due to the limited number of characters in ISO-latin-1, i'm not > surprised that this distinction was blurred - however, do you know > why there is apparently no distinction in Unicode either? > All sources i can find recommend using the "diaeresis" class of > characters for German umlauts. Sometimes, there's a need to distinguish between the umlaut sign and the diaeresis sign. In these cases, the following recommendation by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 should be followed: * To represent the umlaut use Combining Diaeresis (U+0308) * To represent the diaeresis use Combining Grapheme Joiner (CGJ, U+034F) + Combining Diaeresis (U+0308) >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_%28diacritic%29 and originally http://unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html#18 Thomas -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv