Re: USAGE: Stacked diacritics
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 24, 2006, 22:32 |
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Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> Perhaps someone here knows ... is there any language apart from
> Vietnamese which uses such stacked diacritics, in the default Unicode
> way? (I can't think of any, but I don't know every language!). If not,
> is there any reason why the default is different from Vietnamese?
You'll see things like acute accents on top of macrons in a text that's
talking about rhythm and meter in Latin. Pinyin romanization of Chinese
has tone marks on top of an umlaut (lǘ "donkey", lǚ "travel", lǜ "green").