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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Unicode in strings
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 15:48:35 GMT
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Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
>Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> schrieb:
>
>> Canonical simplification of the 'ø' character is either 'o' or 'oe', and 
>> passports and airline tickets differ, something which can cause all 
>> sorts of issues with US passport control.
>
>Reminds me of either "Asterix and the Great Crossing" or "Asterix
>and the Normans", where Viking speach was indicated by having
>slashes through letters (like ø).  When Obelix tries to speak
>their language, he also applies slashes, but does so randomly
>(like through a c) so nobody can understand him.
>
>Hmm... a challenge, can this be represented as Unicode codepoints?

Sure.  See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(diacritic)>.
Interestingly, the Obelix character ȼ you mention above has it's own
precomposed code point U+023C (Latin Small Letter C with Stroke) and
its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C8%BB, but you
can also compose it from c and the combining short solidus overlay: c̷
(this does not display correctly on emacs 27.1, but composes correctly
on an xterm.  There is no precomposed Latin Small Letter D with
Stroke, but you can compose it in the same way: d̷.

- anton
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