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Re: TEI, FOI and multiple-diacritic characters
On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 01:57 Australia/Melbourne, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: 


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.
But like I said over there, Unicode doesn't need a modifier character subgrammar either: it just accumulates, innermost to outermost, admittedly with some script specific behaviours --- which are, however, consistent within the script. (Greek acute will always appear to the right of smooth breathing.) I don't think the modifiers I'm proposing are unworkable.
At any rate, I am no longer agitating for the removal of TEI/FOI; but I do still think they're not needed for diacritics. 

*shrug*
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