At 20:09 -0700 2002-08-12, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Everybody will welcome the new conventional, graphical-type
>characters and scripts that are coming with Unicode 4.0. But maybe
>before standardizing another COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER or other
>control-type character, it would be prudent to study the angles even
>more thoroughly and carefully, and make *damn* sure the character is
>going to be usable and not discouraged or even deprecated at birth.
I tried to get some proper discussion papers on the CGJ from its
advocates but they never really appeared. I still have misgivings
about this beastly thing.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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