RE: New characters query (Hexagrams)

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 17:55:24 EDT


At 13:59 -0700 2001-07-03, Edward Cherlin wrote:

>>But I thought proposals for characters with decompositions into existing
>>characters are no longer being accepted.
>
>True for accented letters where the combining marks already exist,
>but I don't think we want to have two sets of trigrams, one spacing
>and the other combining. Do we?

Gods, no.

>>(Couldn't a ZWJ be used as a way of "joining" two trigrams as a
>>hexagram?)
>
>That would put them side by side. Don't even think about suggesting
>special case semantics.

Yuck, yuck.

-- 
Michael Everson



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