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

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> The only latin-script based languages I know that use some accentuated
> letters not existing in precomposed form in unicode are Guarani
> (it uses "g with tilde") and Chechen (it uses several letters with
> a dot above, some exist in precomposed, but others don't).
>
> There may be others, but I only know about those two.
>  

  I think orthographies of some African languages also need  Latin 
letters with diacritics for which
Unicode/ISO 10646 have never assigned and will never assign precomposed 
fomts.
And, if  we consider  Old and Middle  European languages, there are  
even more.
Needless to say, IPA(although not a language) is a very 'fertile' source 
of  a number of  accented letters.
(I believe there  are some IPA letters linguists want to use that are 
not given separate
codepoints.)

I didn't and wouldn't count  math symbols here  although  there are  a 
lot of them
with Latin letter  as base char.

Jungshik




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