Re: CHAT: (no subject)

Herman Miller scripsit:

> I~ is in the regular Latin Extended-A block for some reason, while e~ is in
> the Vietnamese part of the Latin Extended Additional block.
Latin Extended A comprises the characters in Latin-2, Latin-3, Latin-4, and
Latin-5 that are not also in Latin-1.  AFAIK there is no European
language that requires i~, so it didn't make it into any of these
character sets.  In Vietnamese, though, ~ is a tone mark, and therefore can
appear over any vowel; like the other precomposed Vietnamese-only
characters, i~ appears in Latin Extended Additional.

James Kass's CODE2000 and CODE2001 fonts are quite comprehensive and
are being regularly updated: see http://home.att.net/jameskass/ .

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