Re: ucs-normalize and diacritics

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 3:12 AM Robert Pluim <address@hidden> wrote:

> how common is 2-character composition?

For Cyrillic letters and acute accent, there are no precomposed forms
at all, so when you need to explicitly call out the stressed syllable,
you’re going to use the composing acute accent. That need arises: (1)
in educational texts on every word with more than one syllable, as
training wheels of sort; (2) when you introduce an uncommon word or a
proper name that the reader is not expected to know how to stress; (3)
to disambiguate words that look the same but stressed differently.

There are precomposed forms for ё (Cyrillic {capital|small} letter io
= Cyrillic {capital|small} letter e + Combining diaeresis) and й
(Cyrillic {capital|small} letter short i = Cyrillic {capital|small}
letter i + Combining breve). Using composition for these would be
considered highly unusual.