Re: Public Review Issue #27

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 21:25:23 EST

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    At 04:12 PM 2/9/2004, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
    >That leaves item A. And it is mostly a matter of determining
    >what is the best mechanism for getting people to know how
    >they should "spell" the metegs with the minimum of confusion.
    >Putting something in the Unicode Standard might be appropriate,
    >or there might be better venues to document the conventions.

    I'm of the opinion that conventions that use characters of
    general category Cf are best documented in the standard. Otherwise,
    a consistent treatment of such characters across implementations
    depends too much on context (e.g. use of a particular font).

    "Fine typography" issues for other characters, incl. combining
    are a different matter. These will legitimately differ even
    among uses of the same character (viz. math and text handling
    of accents, for example).

    A./



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