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Re: OT: Unicode 5.0

From:John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
Date:Thursday, January 12, 2006, 19:05
Paul Bennett wrote:
>See also the Variation Selectors, which tell a different story, and the >Rubric brackets proposed for Egyptian.
Pardon? Those don't seem to appear in the lexicon.
>My own suggestions? > >Purge all characters that are transparently a base character plus one or >more combining diacritics, obviously allowing fonts to store precomposed >versions of any combination the font author desires, just not at codepoints >within the defined standard -- some of this goes on already, but it ought >to be the rule rather than the exception.
That's definitely a good idea too.
>Likewise, use ZWJ, ZWNJ and Variation Selectors to encode ligatures, >digraphs, and presentation forms, and encode the composed forms outside the >standard.
Um, I'll just nod and smile here onwards... John Vertical

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