Kent, No, 20D7 is not a Diacritic, it is Other_Math, therefore the dot should remain. In general, mathematical combining characters are not diacritics.
Renderers that treat "combining" as a synonym for "diacritic" and remove the dot are in error. UAX 44 says, "Characters that linguistically modify the meaning of another character to which they apply. Some diacritics are not combining characters, and some combining characters are not diacritics." Leo On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Kent Karlsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Den 2012-08-01 19:41, skrev "Andreas Prilop" <[email protected]>: > > >> Is it correct that >> >> U+0069 U+20D7 >> U+006A U+20D7 >> >> should have a dot > > No, they are soft-dotted: > 0069..006A ; Soft_Dotted # L& [2] LATIN SMALL LETTER I..LATIN SMALL > LETTER J > which means that the inherent dot should be removed if a diacritic above the > letter > is added, which it is in your examples. However, I have yet to see a system > that > handles this correctly...
