suzmccarth wrote:

> I do like editing a syllable at a time for Indic scripts. It feels right.
> I believe that an earlier Uniscribe version allowed editing piece
> by piece. However, I thought that the later Uniscribe which
> allowed editing by syllable only was an improvement. There is a
> way to change Uniscribe versions for those who are particular
> about it. SIL and someone else has an instruction page for this.
>
> In French the "e" accent aigu always seems like a letter of its
> own and the other accents are just incidental. In polytonic Greek
> the accents have a different function. It wouldn't be right to say
> that diacritics function in a similar fashion across languages.

That depends, of course, on what the meaning of "diacritic" is.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...