--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > 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�'.
They may be, but I don't know of any keymap on any OS that uses composed characters for any roman-based language other than Vietnamese. > > 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). As I've said before, combining characters are not only the domain of Unicode, 8-bit Vietnamese and Thai encodings have used them for years. > 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'). Cutting and pasting, coming from spellchecker suggestions. Andrew Dunbar. > -- > Karl Ove Hufthammer ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
