Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 22:41 |
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On 4 Nov 2003 at 16:03, John Cowan wrote:
> Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
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> > Yep. Luckily, Unicode includes the IJ as a single character :) .
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> But only for backward compatibility with a few oddball character sets.
> Using the ij-ligature in Unicode is exactly (canonically) equivalent to
> using i followed by j.
That sounds odd, although I know almost nothing of the technical
details and terminology of Unicode. Does this same notion of
equivalence extend to other multi-symbol characters with single-
symbol representations? For example, is U+0061,U+0301 (a,combining-
acute) considered canonically equivalent to U+00E1 (a-acute)?
I note in my Unicode character pad (Bjondi Character Agent
http://www.bjondi.com) that U+00E1 is listed as having a
decomposition of U+0061,U+0301, whereas U+0133 (ij-ligature) is not
listed as having a decomposition of U+0069,U+0070 (i,j). Does this
have any relevance to my question?
Paul
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