At 16:49 -0800 2002-05-03, Mark Davis wrote:
>I agree with David. I had mentioned this earlier as a possiblity, but
>the latest UTC changes in Table 5-3 to use ignorables make it even
>more attractive. (Cf
>http://www.macchiato.com/utc/grapheme_cluster.html)
>
>The sole change required would be for the CGJ to be Me instead of Mn.
>If we made this change, it would provide for a mechanism for
>representing diacritics over multiple characters, without the addition
>of any other characters -- or the wait for them to be encoded.
I always thought one of the reasons this character got encoded was
precisely to identify entities which were considered unitary, and
therefore which would centre a following diacritic over the whole
lot. I was surprised to hear that it was not going to do that.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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