Re: Mongolian in ISO/IEC 10646

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Jul 27 1999 - 06:11:44 EDT


Ar 23:09 -0700 1999-07-26, scríobh Janusz S. Bien:
>Final Proposed Draft Amendment 29 "Tibetan extension" (closing date
>for vote 1999-08-13) ,,Mongolian'' introduces in particular the
>characters
>
> 48 QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK
> 49 EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK
>
>What is the reason for creating such precomposed characters instead
>of using the appropriate sequence of regular question and exclamation
>marks (which, I guess, are used in Mongolian anyway)?

Because in vertically formatted Mongolian you want

M M
O O
N not N
G G
O O
L L
!? !
      ?

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