Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

"David Starner" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
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On 10/24/07, Andrew West <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed. Even English requires combining marks if you want to support
> Old English other than normalised Early West Saxon, e.g. œ̄þel or
> o͞eþel (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.

Not ISO 639-1 en English. Frankly, I can't imagine any one honestly
expecting full support for OE from a system that claimed to support
English. Furthermore, dictionary diacritics are vastly more common in
English printed material then the Old English diacritics.
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