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Re: Vallian (was: How to minimize "words")

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Monday, February 26, 2007, 12:48
On 2/26/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Or Philip had thought of the canonical ordering algorithm that assigns > to each diacritic a value by which the diacritics must be sorted to > make a Unicode sequence canonical. > > However, these numbers are for diacritic 'attachment points' that do > *not* interfere. Those that attach at the same point have the same > sort value and the order is significant (for stacking) and must not be > changed by the sorting algorithm.
That's the one I was half-remembering. Thanks for the correction. (It did seem odd to me that it was "not possible" to distinguish between a-diaeresis-tilde and a-tilde-diaeresis. That it's not possible to distinguish [since the two sequences are equivalent when normalised] between a-acute-dotbelow and a-dotbelow-acute, on the other hand, is not a problem.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>