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Re: USAGE: Stacked diacritics

From:Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...>
Date:Saturday, June 24, 2006, 17:06
li [Tristan  Alexander McLeay] mi tulis la

> 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?
Not aware of any, but Vietnamese is another language that could use some orthographic reform.
> (Having gone to a secondary school that had enough Vietnames students > it issued its newsletter in English and Vietnamese, and given that I > work very near to a "Little Vietnam" or "Vietnamtown" or whatever > you'd call it, the Vietnamese approach strikes me as "normal" and > better looking, which is kinda why I ask.)
Where I come from it was called "Little Saigon" (that what's the freeway signs say anyway). "Little Saigon" wasn't all that little either.