Combining diacriticals

[Wim Lewis]

On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Nicholas Bastin wrote:
> I'm trying to display the character xbar, which is unicode 0305  
> 0078 (a bar diacritic with an x).  However, Omnigraffle just makes  
> these two different characters.  0305 is definitely defined by the  
> Unicode Standard as a "Combining Diacritical Mark" and so it should  
> not render as its' own character.  All fonts I've tried that  
> support the 0300-036F code points have functioned in this way.  Is  
> there any non-hackish way to display these characters?


In Unicode, the combining marks for a character follow the base  
character (this is opposite from the Mac input methods where you type  
an accent followed by the base character). Could this be the problem  
you're seeing? Typing U+0078 followed by U+0305 (using the unicode  
hex input method) works for me in OmniGraffle, at any rate.


Wim Lewis / wiml at omnigroup.com