I put some examples up on
http://www.macchiato.com/utc/CGJ_examples.htm to illustrate the text
in
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr28/#3_9_special_character_properties
under "Application of Combining Marks"
Do they make it any clearer?
Mark
—————
Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς
[For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Kochanski" <unicode@cardbox.net>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 09:30
Subject: Re: How to make "oo" with combining breve/macron over pair?
> >This thread has convinced me that I don't know the first thing
about
> >CGJs either.
>
> 1. Go out and get drunk. Stay up all night.
> 2. Work hard the next day at something pointless.
> 3. Get someone to wake you up and shout at you "what is a CGJ and
how do I use it"?
>
> If you do not, at that stage, find the answer so obvious that you
can blurt it out without thinking, then you can be **absolutely
certain** that two thirds of application writers, operating system
writers, device driver writers (ESPECIALLY device driver writers) and
font designers will get CGJs hopelessly wrong.
>
>
>
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