Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> Again, these are not combining characters - these are
> precomposed characters.

They may or may not be pre-composed characters. An � can be
written *either* as a '�' or as 'e�'.

> I'm not aware of any system
> that returns a combining character sequence on
> pressing a single key or on using a dead key
> combination.

Neither do I (probably because so few programs support Unicode,
and the most used Latin characters exist in pre-composed form).

But characters may come from other sources, e.g. AbiWord documents
converted from other formats (or manually edited), manually
inserted characters (using Alt+nnnn or 'Insert Symbol').

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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