Re: Tibetan compatibility characters

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 20:50:54 EDT


Peter,

> Another question similar to the Arabic one: The Tibetan block has two
> characters with compatibility decompositions: 0f77 and 0f79. Why weren't
> these given canonical decompositions like 0f78 etc? (These are discouraged
> from use, but that could still have been done with canonical decompositions
> along with excluding them from composition.)

It was a long, complicated argument that involved trying to
resolve combining classes, normalization, decomposition,
and preferred representation of Tibetan -- and it makes my
head hurt every time I try to reconstruct all the details.

Perhaps it is merely their Dharma to serve as strongly
discouraged characters with compatibility decompositions.

--Ken



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