Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote: > The question of Latin letters with two diacritics added in Latin > Extension B does not seem to respect this constraint, as it is not > justifed in the Vietnames VISCII standard that already does not > contain characters with two diacritics, but already composes them > with two characters in the limited CCS set.
Not true. If you like, I can send you a copy of the VISCII report showing not only the mappings, but also their justification. The Viet-Std organization went to great lengths to avoid combining characters, even, as John said, to the point of encoding six graphic characters in the C-zero control area. Perhaps you are thinking of Windows code page 1258, which includes many precomposed letters, but none in the Latin Extension B block, and does require combining marks for vowels with two diacritics. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/