From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sun Nov 09 2003 - 17:25:09 EST
On 09/11/2003 14:04, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
>
>
>>>A starter sequence (defective or not) is then an unordered set of
>>>
>>>
>sequences
>
>
>>>of characters having the same combining class. The relative order of each
>>>element of this set has no semantic value, and does not influence the
>>>canonical equivalence of strings. On the opposite, the relative order of
>>>characters that make each element of this set is significant.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>You ignore the case of multiple combining characters in the same class
>>in the sequence.
>>
>>
>
>Not at all ! May be with supplementary markup of my sentence
>it will be more clear:
> A "starter sequence" (defective or not) is then an
> _unordered_ set of {
> _ordered_ sequences of {
> characters having the same combining class
> }
> }.
>Then look at where I used the term "set" defined by this sentence, and the
>term "element" refers to element of the unordered set, i.e. the "ordered
>sequence of characters having the same combining class".
>
>
OK, this time you are right and I am wrong; although your definition
does not include all canonically equivalent orderings of your "starter
sequence" because it excludes ones in which a combining character in
class b is ordered between two of class a, a not equal to b.
>And no, I did not mix lists. The initial thread was in the main Unicode list
>as it is a generic problem not specific to Hebrew, but to terminologic and
>definition problems.
>
>
This time you did, by sending to the main list your reply to my posting
to the Hebrew list.
For once only I am sending this to both lists, as my incorrect statement
to one list was cross-posted to the other one and so needs to be
corrected on both lists.
In future I will try to keep postings about general issues on the
general list and postings going into Hebrew specifics on the Hebrew
list. I hope those who reply to such postings will reflect my intentions
and not cross-post what I have written without permission (though I have
no problem with short quotes from one list on the other one).
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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