On Fri May 19 17:30:53 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > I think that á is just a single rune, not two different ones composed. If > > to type them, you have to type several keys, it´s just a keyboard issue, > > isn´t it? I don´t understand why this could go to a upper layer. Is there > > any other problem? (besides having to use utf8 for i/o, I mean). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_diacritical_mark > > Think about languages having many diacritical marks (Arabic, Annamese, > Kannada,...), not only about Spanish. Wouldn't you feel there is too > much 'duplicated' information in those glyphs of that small 16bit space?
no.
