[dasher] Hiragana alphabet fixes from David MacKay.



commit cd50a3aa13132fe4c9f99f713c66712338372db2
Author: Patrick Welche <prlw1 cam ac uk>
Date:   Mon Jun 6 15:08:07 2011 +0100

    Hiragana alphabet fixes from David MacKay.
    
    Work around long standing poor rendering of combining diacritics (e.g.,
    tenten) by replacing the combining accent with a non-combining half-width
    character from the half-width katakana range. Thanks also to Christian
    Steinruecken.

 Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana.xml  |    8 +++++---
 Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana2.xml |    7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana.xml b/Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana.xml
index 7595bff..01f2ec3 100644
--- a/Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana.xml
+++ b/Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana.xml
@@ -443,9 +443,11 @@
 <group name="Diacriticals"  b="9" visible="on">
 <!-- I'd like to replace 443,444 below by 441 and 442, which would be 
      correct Unicode; but it seems that it renders wrong on my laptop;
-     441,442 are the combining, nonspacing marks                       -->
-<s d="&#x25cc;&#12443;" t="&#12441;" b="99" note="diacritical buzz "  />
-<s d="&#x25cc;&#12444;" t="&#12442;" b="97" note="diacritical pop  "  />
+     441,442 are the combining, nonspacing marks
+     Sat 9/10/10 Now replaced with katakana marks from another font range.
+  -->
+<s d="&#x25cc;&#xFF9E;" t="&#12441;" b="99" note="diacritical buzz FF9E"  />
+<s d="&#x25cc;&#xFF9F;" t="&#12442;" b="97" note="diacritical pop  FF9F"  />
 <s d="&#12540;" t="&#12540;" note="Japanese long dash (long tone)" b="96" />
 </group>
 <group name="60 Letters (actually 55 plus two diacriticals)" b="0"  visible="off">
diff --git a/Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana2.xml b/Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana2.xml
index d96686d..0521d70 100644
--- a/Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana2.xml
+++ b/Data/alphabets/alphabet.hiragana2.xml
@@ -128,9 +128,10 @@
 <group name="Diacriticals"  b="9" visible="on">
 <!-- I'd like to replace 443,444 below by 441 and 442, which would be 
      correct Unicode; but it seems that it renders wrong on my laptop;
-     441,442 are the combining, nonspacing marks                       -->
-<s d="&#x25cc;&#12443;" t="&#12441;" b="99" note="diacritical buzz "  />
-<s d="&#x25cc;&#12444;" t="&#12442;" b="97" note="diacritical pop  "  />
+     441,442 are the combining, nonspacing marks
+  -->
+<s d="&#x25cc;&#xFF9E;" t="&#12441;" b="99" note="diacritical buzz FF9E was 12443"  />
+<s d="&#x25cc;&#xFF9F;" t="&#12442;" b="97" note="diacritical pop  FF9F was 12444"  />
 <!-- <s d="&#x25cc;&#12441;" t="&#12441;" b="99" note="diacritical buzz &#x25cc;&#12441; &#12443;"  /> -->
 <!-- <s d="&#x25cc;&#12442;" t="&#12442;" b="97" note="diacritical pop  &#x25cc;&#12442; &#12444;"  /> -->
 <s d="&#12540;" t="&#12540;" note="Japanese long dash (long tone)" b="95" />



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