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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.
That called "unicode 4.0" comes with 96,248 graphic characters.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/

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