Re: Burmese vowels

From: Michael Forgey (forgey@bigfoot.com)
Date: Thu Oct 15 1998 - 01:45:52 EDT


At 07:54 PM 10/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>A 18:36 1998-10-14 -0700, Michael Forgey a écrit :
>>At 05:34 PM 10/14/98 -0700, Rick McGowan wrote:
>>
>>>In general, however, refering to the Unicode Standard: It is never
>>>"illegal" to combine any character with any other character. The
standard
>>>does not legislate the segregation of scripts or the legality of
arbitrary
>>>text streams.
>
>[Michael] :
>>Nice to hear that so clearly stated. That is a misconception that had taken
>>some root in my mind.
>
>[Alain] :
>And in fact ISO/IEC 10646, in its conformance level 3, imposes no
>restriction either.
>

So Unicode and ISO do not place any restrictions on what can be considered
to be a "legal" text stream; but, there is a lot of discussion in the
Unicode manual regarding various encoding issues such as those for the
Devanagari and Tamil scripts. These discussions explain the "correct" or
"required" encoding patterns to follow in order to support these rendering
phenomena. Is that a true statement?

mike
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