Combining character example

[Asmus Freytag (t)]

On 4/16/2015 3:45 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
> Thanks for the corrections; I should have looked for a key to the 
> conventions they use.
>
>
It's clear why they would not want to use the HTML underline.

The additional information is content, not style.

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> Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
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> /— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —/
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:32 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <jknappen at web.de 
> <mailto:jknappen at web.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Mark,
>     the use of DOT BELOW and LINE BELOW is in fact consistent in
>     German Duden. The
>     difference in the diacritics is used to denote length of the
>     stressed vowel, DOT BELOW
>     denotes a short vowel and LINE BELOW denotes a long vowel.
>     Diphthongs are always long and there is a single line under the
>     whole Diphthong.
>     Digraphs (e.g. the "ou" in words borrowed from French) also have
>     either a single line
>     under the whole digraph or (this happens rarely) a single dot in
>     the middle of the
>     digraph.
>     --Jörg Knappen
>     *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 16. April 2015 um 10:01 Uhr
>     *Von:* "Mark Davis ☕️" <mark at macchiato.com
>     <mailto:mark at macchiato.com>>
>     *An:* "Unicode Public" <unicode at unicode.org
>     <mailto:unicode at unicode.org>>, "Unicode Book" <book at unicode.org
>     <mailto:book at unicode.org>>
>     *Betreff:* Combining character example
>     I happened to run across a good example of productive use of
>     combining marks, the Duden site (a great online dictionary for
>     German). They use U+0323 (   ̣) COMBINING DOT BELOW to indicate the
>     stress. Here is an example:
>     ụnterbuttern
>     http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/unterbuttern
>     They aren't, however, consistent; you also see underlining for stress.
>
>         e̲i̲nschränken
>
>     But not, interestingly, with the HTML underline, but with U+0332 (
>      ̲  ) COMBINING LOW LINE.
>     Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
>
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