>>>>> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> | I was wondering whether we could have a insetunicodeaccent.

Lars> I'd say that would be pointless. If we need such a beast, it
Lars> should be internal to the frontend. (I.e. the frontend must do
Lars> what it has to to support combining chars, chars and don't have
Lars> an available glyph etc.)

Jean-Marc> But this means that the length of a docstring is not much
Jean-Marc> more usable than the length of an utf-8 string... Also,
Jean-Marc> cursor movement will be much more complicated. This is not
Jean-Marc> a frontend matter only IMO.

Since this combining chars should be very rare (am I right? It should
at least be true for the languages we handle now), an inset makes
sense in terms of smallest impact on the kernel code. 

Do you have an idea of what the uses cases are, or are you just
playing safe?

JMarc

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