September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
21h 3m
English
Three rules govern the behavior of Unicode non-spacing marks:
A non-spacing mark always combines with the character that precedes it. If the backing store contains the character codes
U+006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O U+0302 COMBINING DIAERESIS U+006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O
they represent the sequence
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and not the sequence
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In other words, the diaeresis attaches to the o that precedes it.
Unicode's designers could have gone either way with this decision. It really doesn't make much difference whether the mark attaches to the ...
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