Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

On 24/10/2007, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Andrew West wrote:
> > Nearly all. If you remember a couple of years back Hong Kong wanted
> > precomposed letters added for E/e-circumflex plus macron/caron, which
> > are pinyin alternatives for ēi and ěi, but that was a non-starter, so
> > even for something as simple as pinyin you would need to support
> > combining characters (<00CA 0304>, <00CA 030C>, <00EA 0304> and <00EA
> > 030C>).
>
> Hmmm... Some confusion here: a "macron" <U+0304> (horizontal stroke above)
> is NOT a caron <U+30C>, and your ***turned down**** "circumflex" is in fact
> IS the "caron" <U+30C>... The normal "circumflex" is another one <U+0302>
> and it occurs in many precomposed letters.

欸 (ê̌) ?

[U+6B38  (U+00EA U+030C ) ?]

Andrew