[fontforge-users] Combining Diacritical Marks

[David M. <dp...@ho...>]

Hello.

Unicode has glyphs that consist of a primary character and a diacritic that is combined with it, but Unicode also has separate encodings for the primary characters and for the diacritics so that, in theory, the individual diacritics serve as combing diacrical marks which can join onto any other Unicode character.

My questions are: How do I create a diacritical mark so that it will join in the same basic manner to any primary character that is typed before it? If I want to add one to the Private Use Area, how could I achieve this combining effect so that it will come out properly when typing in the finished font? Is this possible? I have been using a font application called BirdFont, and the creator seems to be under the impression there is not a way to do this already, at least not in his program. However, he may be confused about what I am looking for. Could anyone advise me on whether this is possible, and if so, how? Much of my font will depend on creating effective combining diacritical marks not represented in Unicode already, so this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

David Myers