On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 14:26:28 -0800 Asmus Freytag via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/8/2019 2:08 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 17:16:09 +0000 (GMT) > "[email protected] via Unicode" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andrew West wrote: > > Just reminding you that "The initial character in a variation > sequence > is never a nonspacing combining mark (gc=Mn) or a canonical > decomposable character" (The Unicode Standard 11.0 §23.4). > > Hopefully the issue that Andrew mentions can be resolved in some way. > > This is not a problem. Instead of writing <ê, VS14>, one just writes > <e, VS14, U+0302 COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT>. > > And .... introducing yet another convention, which is that combining > marks inherit the font of the base character. > > Remember, italics, even though presented as a boolean attribute in > most UIs is in fact typographically a font selection. Wouldn't <e, VS14> be the base character for the selection of the font? Richard.
