Sounds to me that what you really want is to have two different breve characters (assuming that the distinction is real and intentional, and not a happenstance). That would require encoding a new combining character, AFAICT...
/Kent K Den 2014-07-02 20:48, skrev "Leo Broukhis" <l...@mailcom.com>: > Jukka, > > If the font happens to have lunar breve at U+0306, whereas the letter й has > the rounded bowl breve, using CGJ should guarantee to achieve distinctive > rendering, because <и, CGJ, U+0306> is not canonically equivalent to <и, > U+0306> (cf. "The sequences <a, umlaut> and <a, CGJ, umlaut> are not > canonically equivalent.") and therefore the renderer must not be allowed to > pick the glyph for й instead as its canonical composition. This is a hack, but > a legal hack. > > Leo > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote: >> 2014-07-02 20:34, Philippe Verdy wrote: >> >>> CGJ would be better used to prevent canonical compositions but it won't >>> normally give a distinctive semantic. >> >> In the question, visual difference was desired. The Unicode FAQ says: >> “The semantics of CGJ are such that it should impact only searching and >> sorting, for systems which have been tailored to distinguish it, while being >> otherwise ignored in interpretation. The CGJ character was encoded with this >> purpose in mind.” >> http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html >> <http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html> >> >> So CGJ is to be used when you specifically want the same rendering but wish >> to make a distinction in processing. >> >> Yucca >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Unicode mailing list >> Unicode@unicode.org >> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >> <http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > Unicode@unicode.org > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
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