Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
\NC 0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT \NC \textgrave \NC \NR \NC 0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE \NC \texthookabove \NC \NR \NC 0303 COMBINING TILDE \NC \texttilde \NC \NR \NC 0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT \NC \textacute \NC \NR \NC 0323 COMBINING DOT BELOW \NC \textbottomdot \NC \NR
I may be wrong, but aren't those used only in combination with other characters? I don't know if TeX (ConTeXt) can handle this (at least not yet).
If the format was <accent> <char>, that would work, but unicode specifies <char> <accent>, and that cannot be done without a special font encoding that uses lots of ligatures.
I thought so. But the issue is not a matter of font designers, but of underlying software. If TeX can't "unget" a character and replace it with the accented one, you can't ask font designers to add dozens of ligatures. Knuth didn't write TeX with Unicode conventions in mind, so I can understand that, I only wonder if XeTeX, Aleph [and exTeX] support such accents. I'll consider this as "leave Windows Vietnamese encoding unsupported" (they have two other encodings anyway). Thanks, Mojca