Chris Jacobs wrote,

> If you have the text in UniPad try the following:
> 
> Edit Convert Decompose Combinations, and then
> Search Replace Text to find: "\u0323" Replace with: ";." Replace All

Or "\u0329", depending on which diacritic was used in the source.

Also, since the mark below can appear along with a combining grave
or acute, those decompositions would have to be considered in the
search and replace operations.

> Since the input for the search window already does not have to be the font
> codes a non-conformant font is not as bad as it first seemed.
> I think it should be not that hard to change the search window to let it
> accept unicode too.

Perhaps they've chosen their custom encoding in order to side-step the
mark-below issue.  As you say, it shouldn't be hard to enable Unicode
in their search window.  And, once an agreement within the user community
is reached on the mark below, it shouldn't be that hard to convert their
entire web site and database to Unicode, too!

Best regards,

James Kass


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