Re: diacritic marks for Latin alphabet (Re: supporting XIM)

[Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> >>If there is an urgent need for this in other scripts...
> >Not in Latin-alphabet text generally. Writing systems that have 
> >such needs include Vietnamese, IPA, Math, Polytonic Greek, 
>
>   Does Vietnamese need diacritic marks ? Sure, it does, but
> I think all it needs are encoded as precomposed...

As I understand it, the usual written forms of Vietnamese explicitly need
multiple marks per letter; there are no precomposed forms for that. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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