If this needed a distinct encoding, then I'd be inclined to encode the
letter-diacritic combinations as atomic characters because they form a single
outline, and the interaction of the diacritic with the letter depends on the
particular letter. This is similar to encoding of letters with retrofl
Hello,
Am 2010-08-31 16:57, schrieb Janusz S. Bień:
Can the diacritic be interpreted
as an already exisiting combining character?
Perhaps:
0326 Combining comma below
0329 Combining vertical line below
0337 Combining short solidus overlay
Cheers,
Otto Stolz
2010/8/31 Janusz S. Bień :
> First, is "semivirgula" a good name? Google shows that it often refers
> to semicolon.
I’m no specialist and I have no idea about what’s the original name of
that diacritic, but “virgula” is the name of the comma in medieval
manuscripts[1]. To this day it’s the word f
Thanks for the answers (and sorry for the somewhat late reply),
My interest in this question is purely technical - as I've mentioned
elsewhere, I'm trying to load Unihan data into an SQL database*, so
occasionally I need more details about the contents of fields without
actually using them. In this
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