> As for oe-ligature, the > French representative to WG3 (or its predecessor) said that France could > live without it.
Even worse; the story I heard was that the committee had planned from the start to have Œ and œ in positions D7 and F7, but that late in the process the representative from France objected, so they replaced them by × and ÷. That would certainly explain why these symbols are in the middle of a batch of letters... Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 20:13 Subject: Re: Display of Isolated Nonspacing Marks (was Re: Questions on ZWNBS...) > Philippe Verdy scripsit: > > > Except that in that case, we are no speaking about something that has > > already been standardized, but only used as a legacy mean to achieve > > some results with mosre or less success. > > It *is* part of the Unicode Standard. You want a stand-alone diacritic? > Use SP or NBSP followed by the combining diacritic. It says so, right > there. > > Your implementation doesn't work? Complain to the implementor, switch to > another implementation, fix the implementation yourself, or pay someone > to fix it. > > > SPACE+diacritic is still a hack, and certainly not a canonical equivalent > > (including for its properties), of the existing spacing diacritics, which > > also do not fit all usages because they are symbols. > > It's the spacing diacritics that are a hack, for the most part. The > ASCII ones have, as I said, taken on a life of their own. > > > * [OT] This was a shame when ISO adapted the DEC VT charset to > > create ISO-8859-1, but forgot important characters needed for the > > languages that this charset was supposed to cover (like the French > > oe and OE ligatures, and a few characters missing for Baltic languages, > > Icelandic, and Catalan.) > > ISO-8859-1 was not meant to cover the whole of Europe; it was part of > a quartet, parts 1 to 4. The fact that parts 3 and 4 didn't work out was > not ISO's fault: it didn't foresee how important European as opposed ot > merely regional data interchange would be. As for oe-ligature, the > French representative to WG3 (or its predecessor) said that France could > live without it. > > > -- > John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com > "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves." > --Murray Gell-Mann > >
