Hello. > > Would it be possible to define the U+FE00 variant sequence for a with > > two dots above it to be a with an e above it, and similarly U+FE00 > > variant sequences for o with two dots above it and for u with two dots > > above it, and possibly for e with two dots above it as well?
Even if it's possible - what would we gain? It is already possible to get the glyph you want by the sequence "a" (or "o" or "u") + "combining e above". Both must be done by the author of a text and cannot be done by a renderer or via selecting a proper font (while selecting a font may show "a" + "combining diaraesis" with whatever the font-desinger thought it should look like). I think the chars in question are very seldom even in german (I've almost never seen them except in logos or logo-like names, where eg. spell-checking is irrelevant - and even worse distortions of characters occure), so an athor may use them a) only in very few places or b) in the whole text as a gimmic For (a) they should be realy distinct from the umlauts (so use the combining e above) and (b) makes only sense in an formatted document, where additional information like the font to use is available anyway - so in such documents a different font for foreign words may be used or whatever is nessessary until the text looks as the author wishes it to. But this is not a matter of unicode. Best regards -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
