Sisyphe wrote:Try to write the diacritic first and then the letter.
Curious you mention that, Sisyphe, because that’s exactly what does not work for me.
And I guess Unicode does require diacritics to come after the character they modify (even if they have to be keyed in first). If I key e.g. Portuguese ã in my keyboard, I do type combining ~ and then a (̃a), but the system does have to convert it to a plus combining ~ (ã) instead (or even better, a pre-combined character: ã).
This is the list you typed, quoted from your message; the diacritics look all out of place for me:
a - d́âu ngang
̉a - d́âu h̉oi
́a - d́âu śăc
̀a - d́âu huỳên
̃a - d́âu ng̃a
̣a - d́âu ṇăng[/quote]
And this the same list, typed by me now, using pre-combined characters:
a - dấu ngang
ả - dấu hỏi
á - dấu sắc
à - dấu huyền
ã - dấu ngã
ạ - dấu nặng
I use pre-combined characters because, as a rule, combining diacritics look awful on Internet Explorer, even if properly put after the characters they modify:
a - dấu ngang
ả - dấu hỏi
á - dấu sắc
à - dấu huyền
ã - dấu ngã
ạ - dấu nặng
Talk about digression, hehe.