Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

John Cowan wrote:
> Garth Wallace scripsit:
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>>BTW, in Unicode, is the Vietnamese horn the same as the rhoticity horn
>>from the IPA?
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> No.  The rhotic hook is encoded separately for compatibility but isn't
> a combining character, just an ordinary one.  All normal uses of it are
> encoded as single characters anyway.
That's weird. The Unicode listing says that it's "often ligated", which
is probably what made me think it was a combining character.