On Tue, 27 May 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
I confess ignorance here. Are there really
languages for which the
simplest canonical representation in Unicode requires combining forms?
Off the top of my head, one Aleutian language (Unangam Tunuu) uses
x-with-circumflex; Guarani apparently uses g-with-tilde. Tone marks for
Chinese Zhuyin phoenetic script are combining characters; I think the
Indian scripts are pretty dependant on this kind of thing as well.