"Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/03/2003 07:25:46 AM:
> How do you consider the existing "hook" diacritic ?
If you're talking about U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE, I don't think it normally attaches. In fact, it's combining class is 230 'above' and not 214 'above attached'.
Philippe may be thinking of the Vietnamese 'horn', U+031B COMBINING HORN, which does attach. My understanding, though, is that this is encoded for backwards compatibility, and was the result of a hack necessary to fit Vietnamese language support into an 8-bit codepage. It is a long time since I have seen any Vietnamese fonts that support the 'horned' vowels by attaching this character as a combining diacritic: they all use the precomposed horn vowels.
John Hudson
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