From fisseha@cig.mot.com Tue Feb 7 12:14:13 1995 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu by whale.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA02217; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 12:14:12 -0500 Received: from motgate.mot.com by moose.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA22624; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 12:14:11 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA06138; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:13:37 -0600 Received: from po_box.cig.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1) id AA25857; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:13:36 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by po_box.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id MAA04578; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 12:14:21 -0500 Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id LAA04967; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:13:35 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Message-Id: <199502071713.LAA04967@gerbil.cig.mot.com> Subject: Re: document To: fisseha@cig.mot.com (Yonas Fisseha) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 11:13:35 -0600 (CST) Cc: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu, ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu, fisseha@cig.mot.com In-Reply-To: <199502071652.KAA04353@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Yonas Fisseha" at Feb 7, 95 10:52:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 796 Status: R > > > > + Glyphs & Ligatures > * 7 diacritical marks to aid composition of unknown characters if including diacritics, should we include every possible (i counted ~15 but im sure there is more) diacritic? we have to think about diacritics more. we cant use them as place holders imho since standards are meant to be incremental (ie backwards compatible) so we can only add not delete/change characters. what are your opinions? also if new chars can be composed using diacritics, why not the old ones too? -yf -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------