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