Languages
There is a family set of developed Japanese IDNs that are intended for Japanese people who are learning languages. They are all hosted on the same server.
Chinese Tones
Recently, in one of my International Computing lectures, I was demonstrating the use of the Unicode Combining Diacritical Marks. I was using Latin letters as my base character and combining various combinations of diacritcs. As was expected they worked fine. Then an idea occurred to me. I wondered if the diacritics would combine appropriately with Chinese characters. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that with TextEdit on Mac OSX they combined rather well. Later I tried with various Word Processors and the results of combining were either poor or non-existant. The next step was to try it with web pages. Combining did not work at all with the browsers I tried. I then used html5 Ruby Annotation and that works quite well, as below. 北 ̬ 京 ̱ 欢 ̱ 迎 ̗ 你 ̬ The Combining Diacritical Marks I have used for the annotation are:- U+0316 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT BELOW U+0317 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT BELOW U+032C COMBINING CARON BELOW U+0331 COMBINING MACRON BELOW
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