Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

Isaac Penzev wrote:

>And for convenience it is always good to have "one
>keystroke - one character" principle.
>
Nothing stops/should stop keyboards/keymaps from having one key that
produces multiple characters resulting in a single letter. (I think my
terminology's right there... but I'm probably wrong.)

>Btw, combinatory marks make the characters look dash ugly, since letters
>have different width.
>You may compare precomp. ā and composed ā. Even in this case it differs.
>And if I need to put macron over ы or ю (as in Mansi), they look even worse:
>ы̅, ю̅. And where to put macron over ё? And to have GHE WITH DESCENDER, EL
>WITH HOOK and HA WITH HOOK (all for Nivkh), we definitely need a separate
>character.
>
>
There's no requirement for the character to be encoded. A good renderer
should, I understand, display a+combining macron as the LATIN (CYRILLIC)
SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON ABOVE character. I don't think there's
anything stopping a font designer from putting HA WITH HOOK, DESCENDER
AND CEDILLA into the personal use area and having the sequence
ha+combining hook+combining descender+combining cedilla be represented
as the character from the PUA.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

There's no such thing as an infinite loop. Eventually, the computer will break.
-- John D. Sullivan

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