Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Combining characters are now possible with Unicode for > western languages but nobody is using them yet. Well, I have been using them for a few occations. Mozilla supports them, at least somewhat (it uses superimposing glyphs). >> As for undoing a decomposed character (e.g. e�), I >> think it's safe >> to undo all characters back to (and including) the >> last non- >> combining character. For example if you write e� > > Don't confuse your precomposed � above with combining > characters. I don't. If a document contains e� (where � is a combining �), pressing backspace should delete both characters, not just the �. > Normalization is a different subject which mostly > comes into play with searching and sorting - it's > probably only going to be confusing to mention it > here. > Though maybe we do need to discuss whether AbiWord > should normalize all characters in its internal > representation... Since AbiWord uses XML as its file format, the document should (not must) be normalized according to Normalization Form C. There was some talk about making it a requirement for the next version of XML, cf. <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#sec2.13 >, but this will most likely not happen. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer
