Kent> For Vietnamese and Thai, you may very well be right. But your
Kent> proposal leads to strange behaviour for "western european languages"
Kent> at least.
Kent> Base Latin character character + attached combining nonspacing marks
Kent> should be regarded as a unit from an editing point of view: erase,
Kent> cursor motion, etc. E.g. an Å or an é should be regarded as each a
Kent> single grapheme, independently of how they are stored at a lower
Kent> level (decomposed or precomposed). No cursor motion changes, no
Kent> deletion behaviour changes, no coloration oddities, etc. If you
Kent> really want to see the low level representation, then a special
Kent> (non-default!) mode should be used for that.
Quite true. In my haste to whip something out, I forgot this necessary
feature.
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Mark Leisher
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