Dele and Philippe, The solution is *not* to develop a new African 8-bit encoding that encodes EÌÌ and eÌÌ as precomposed characters, and then try to use that as a justification for getting them encoded as precomposed characters in Unicode, "but without any canonical equivalence."
The solution is to use the combining marks and encode EÌÌ and eÌÌ as I have done in this message. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/