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Interesting detail. So technology should fix what technology broke and the debate would be over.
by lolc 11y ago
Interesting detail. So technology should fix what technology broke and the debate would be over.
- vorg 11y agoIt's already done. Unicode provides non-spacing modifiers which will overlay the previous codepoint. So you can type, for example, either U+0301 (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT) or U+030b (COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT) over the period or comma.
- lolc 11y agoI was wondering about that. But I don't think accent characters are intended for that. They don't seem to work for punctuation. We would have to use COMBINING DOT BELOW with a zero width space. "This looks baḍ̋ Edit: Actually make that a space, maybe it's the proportional font "This looks still bad ̣̋