In a combining character sequence, the base character is the initial character, which the combining marks are applied to.
For example, an é (e-acute) can be represented in a string as a single run e ("\u00e9") or an 'e' followed by an acute accent ("e\u0301" in NFD). According to the Unicode standard, these two are "canonically equivalent" and should be treated as equal. [2]
Character properties
Character properties of U+0301 - combining acute accent
Squeak 6.0
Displaying combining diacritics works in Squeak 6.0 when using a TrueType font; before it did not.
