On 2011-01-14 01:44:19 -0500, "Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> said:
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message
news:igoqrm$1n5r$1...@digitalmars.com...
Thanks. One further question is: in the above example with u-with-umlaut,
there is one code point that corresponds to the entire combination. Are
there combinations that do not have a unique code point?
My understanding is "yes". At least that's what I've heard, and I've never
heard any claims of "no". I don't know of any specific ones offhand, though.
Actually, it might be possible to use any combining character with any old
letter or number (like maybe a 7 with an umlaut), though I'm not certain.
Correct, there's a lot of combinations with no pre-combined form. This
should be no surprise given that you can apply any number of combining
marks to any character.
mythical 7 with an umlaut: 7̈
mythical 7 with umlaut, ring above, and acute accent: 7̈̊́
I can't guaranty your news reader will display the above correctly, but
it works as described in mine (Unison on Mac OS X). In fact, it should
work in all Cocoa-based applications. This probably includes iOS-based
devices too, but I haven't tested there.
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Michel Fortin
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