Nicholas Bodley wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:07:54 -0400, Andrew Cunningham
> <andj_c@...> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately it wasn't possible to get text to display correctly that
> > required the use of combining diacritics.
>
> Urk. Mechanical typewriters could do nice overstrikes!

A simple overstrike is something that also a "plain vanilla" TrueType font
could do.

But unfortunately that's quite not enough to a decent support of combining
diacritics: just look at the different vertical placement and size of the
same diacritic in <é> and <É>; and, if you view this message in a
proportional font, also see the different horiziontal placement of the same
accent in <é> and <í>.

--
Marco