Le lundi 25 octobre 2010 à 14:08 +0300, Arns Udovīčė a écrit : > Hello all, > > On 2010-06-30 change became effective for Samogitian > (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=sgs). There are one > letter which has many problems with rendering. It is E/e with dot > above and macron [...] You can see it in: atvīkė̄ or Vielībė̅jė. On > Linux it is shown (in different shrifts) as „ė“ with macron between > dot and letter or „ė“ with minus near letter (see attachment).
On my (linux) system, it is well rendered. > [...] Try to use in IT is complicated. > What I should to do what this letter come to unicode? As I read in > http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html it is better to deal > about it in this thread at first. First, Unicode has stopped long time ago (Unicode 4.1 ?) to encode composite latin diacritics. I have the feeling it should be documented in http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html#9 , but I've been unable to find a clear statement here. The main reason is thet it would break normalization stability ( http://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html#Normalization ) causing security problems (see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/) That's why, for exemple, letters for Lithuanian like LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK AND ACUTE; U+0104 U+0301, is not encoded as a unicode character but as a named sequence. You may ask for encoding *LATIN {CAPITAL,SMALL} LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE AND MACRON as a named sequence (see http://www.unicode.org/faq/named_sequences.html#3 and folllowing), but I'm not sure it has a big chance to stay. Frédéric -- Frédéric Grosshans Chargé de Recherche Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire ENS Cachan / CNRS UMR 8437 tel: (+33)1 47 40 77 15 GSM: (+33)6 09 24 29 64 e-mail: frederic.grossh...@ens-cachan.fr
