On Mon Nov 30 06:28:25 EST 2009, rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: > now just some handling of combining characters to do :-)
i assume you mean "now just some handling of combining characters to do. :)", not "now just some handling of combining characters to do ☺". :-) of course the problem with combining characters is that they're metafont hidden inside a character set. unicode doesn't limit the decorations one can put on a letter. so a + hat + hat + + breve is just a fine character. in fact if i haven't gotten mixed up, that's a romization of an archaic cyrillic character that's still common in surnames. there's no reason you can't put that all in a circle. so given that, we know there's no requirement for a precombined form. the easy approach of just turning x + combiners into x' which can be decomposed into x + combiners won't work, in general. (doing as mac and decomposing everything seems excessively hard on libdraw. what if successive calls to string() split a combiner?) maybe we can live with combine everything combineable. it could be an improvement. - erik
