On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 02:27, James Kass via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > On 2019-08-11 5:26 PM, [ Doug Ewell ] via Unicode wrote: > > If you are thinking of these as potential future additions to the standard, > > keep in mind that accented letters that can already be represented by a > > combination of letter + accent will not ever be encoded. This is one of the > > longest-standing principles Unicode has.
People seem to be ignoring the fact that Marshallese and Latvian both use L and N with cedilla, but with completely different glyph shapes: > In January 2013, the Unicode Technical Committee discussed issues for the > representation of > Marshallese orthography. In particular, Marshallese uses the Latin script and > requires the letters l, > m, n, and o with cedilla. Latvian orthography uses the Latin script and > requires the letters g, k, l, n, > and r with comma below. For Marshallese, it is unacceptable to display > cedillas as commas below. > Conversely, for Latvian, it is unacceptable to display commas below as > cedillas. However, as fonts have been following Latvian practice for these letters (cedilla is displayed as a comma below) since before Unicode, Marshallese users cannot get their desired outcome using standard Unicode combining diacritical marks unless they apply a font specially designed for Marshallese -- which you can never guarantee if you are writing an email or posting on twitter, etc. This issue was discussed at WG2 in 2013 (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13128-latvian-marshal-adhoc.pdf), when there was a recommendation to encode precomposed letters L and N with cedilla *with no decomposition*, but that solution does not seem to have been taken up by the UTC. Andrew
