On Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:01:46 +0100 Kent Karlsson via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Den 2019-02-02 12:17, skrev "Egmont Koblinger" <egm...@gmail.com>: > > Most terminal emulators handle non-spacing combining marks, it's a > > piece of cake. (Spacing marks are more problematic.) > Well, I guess you may need to put some (practical) limit to the number > of non-spacing marks (like max two above + max one below; overstrikes > are an edge case). Otherwise one may need to either increase the line > height (bad idea for a terminal emulator I think) or the marks start > to visually interfere with text on other lines (even with the hinted > limits there may be some interference), also a bad idea for a terminal > emulator. So I'm not so sure that non-spacing marks is a piece of > cake... (I.e., need to limit them.) Doesn't Jerusalem in biblical Hebrew sometime have 3 marks below the lamedh? The depth then is the maximum depth, not the sum of the depths. Tai Lue has 'mai sat 3 lem' - that's three marks above for a combination common enough to have a name. Throw in the repetition mark and that's four marks above if you treat the subscript consonant as a mark (or code it to comply with the USE's erroneous grammar). Richard.