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TEI, FOI and multiple-diacritic characters



nitcion wrote the following on the BPFK board:

> * How do we deal with characters with double or more accents? (p. 419
> CLL)  For instance, how is Classical Greek or Vietnamese spelled out in
> Lojban:  is there a default order? (It seems to me there is a sensible
> such order:  closer to further from the character. Since diacritics are
> defined as belonging to a certain position on the letter, I don't see
> that it needs to be any more complicated than that; at most, L before R
> for LtoR scripts, UtoD for scripts written downwards rather than
> upwards. Unicode really hasn't found this to be a problem.)

This is one of the reasons to keep TEI and FOI around: diacritics can be
in any order around the modified character. Then, we won't have to write
an entire modifier character subgrammar.

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