From: Keyur Shroff (keyur_shroff@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 07:12:40 EST
--- Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it> wrote:
>
> I add that this is a good way of displaying a combining mark that has no
> base character, i.e. one occurring at the begin of a line or paragraph.
>
> However, I totally agree with Kent that this funny rendering is *not* a
> requirement of the Unicode standard, as Keyur Shroff seems to suggest. It
> is just an example of many "several methods [that] are available to deal
> with" strange sequences.
A sequence should not be treated as "strange" sequence if it has been
written intentionally. It may have some contextual meaning.
>
> > Any combining characters can be placed on any base characters without
> > there being any dotted circles displayed.
Not only that, but it is also desirable. How can one write a vowel matra
both with and without dotted circle in a single document if Unicode
recommends to place it only on top of space character? Matra with dotted
circle is sometimes useful as in the case of printing/explaining Unicode
standard. A user may want to hide dotted circle in the same document in
order to explain the actual shape of the matra character, i.e., without
dotted circle. Both kind of rendering behaviour is possible. There should
be some mechanism either to turn on or off dotted circle depending on the
default behaviour.
Also, what is good or bad is also subjective. It may also vary from one
script to another.
- Keyur
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