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Re: wide vs. complex characters
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Robert Brady |
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Re: wide vs. complex characters |
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Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:04:49 +0100 (BST) |
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Neil Zanella wrote:
> But when Unicode is used there is no need for overstriking characters.
Er, no. A proper Unicode implemention needs combining characters. Whilst
you can get away with using precomposed characters for some European
languages, there are a lot of languages that need combining characters.
Think "Thai, Lao, Arabic, Hebrew, Maths, Phonetics", etc.
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