Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

Michael Everson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
Message-ID <p06240848c3457756ba91@[192.168.1.126]> 
At 23:14 +0100 2007-10-24, Andrew West wrote:

>Indeed. Even English requires combining marks if you want to support
>Old English other than normalised Early West Saxon, e.g. ¦¯©‚el or
>o?e©‚el (oe ligature with combining macron or oe with combining double
>macron). And I guess that there are a few of us on this list who would
>say that fully supporting OE is absolutely required for English as a
>whole.

Of course it is. I learnt OE in secondary school. 
Surely that is "ordinary" enough.


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