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Re: questions with combining characters [was: Unicode: endpoint of evolution of encodings?]

On Thursday 2004.11.18 18:46:46 +0100, David Gómez wrote:
> Hi Keld ;),
> 
> > Hmm, I see it differently. All the "fully composed" characters are
> > indeed full characters in their own right,
> 
> That depends on the script, i guess. In Spanish, composed characters
> are _not_ characters in their own rigth (maybe is ntilde a composed
> character? i think not ;)). But i understand that is different in Devanagari
> or Thai, for example.

In Thai and Lao there are a few precomposed glyphs that made it into Unicode
which I think most speakers of those languages would not consider as separate
characters in their own right.  For Devanagari, I think the situation is
similar.

- Ed


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