Re: [q-lang-users] More Unicode queries.

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> <!ENTITY DotDot           " &#x020DC;" ><!--COMBINING FOUR DOTS ABOVE -->
> 
> Is this really supposed to be a two-character combination?

Yes, it is.  It is the character SPACE (U+0020) followed by a combining
character, one which is nonspacing and normally sits above, below,
left of, or right of another character called its base character.

By convention, a nonspacing character placed on a SPACE character becomes
the corresponding spacing character in appearance.  (Unicode encodes
both spacing and nonspacing versions of certain diacritics for backward
compatibility; for example, there is both ^ and a COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX.)

> Because all I get from " \0x020DC" is a blank followed by the "four
> dots above" character.

That is either a font problem or a font rendering problem on your
system, more probably the latter.  Linux is considerably behind both
Windows and OS X in getting basic i18n correct, although it provides more
localizations (particularly into languages considered non-commercial by
the others).

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