Encoding italic

Fri Feb 8 16:08:25 CST 2019

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 17:16:09 +0000 (GMT)
"wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com via Unicode" <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> Andrew West wrote:

>> Just reminding you that "The initial character in a variation
>> sequence  
>> is never a nonspacing combining mark (gc=Mn) or a canonical
>> decomposable character" (The Unicode Standard 11.0 §23.4).

> Hopefully the issue that Andrew mentions can be resolved in some way.

This is not a problem.  Instead of writing <ê, VS14>, one just writes
<e, VS14, U+0302 COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT>.

Richard.