Re: Defined Private Use was: SSP default ignorable characters

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 11:55:08 CST


On 29/04/2004 21:04, John Cowan wrote:

>Mark E. Shoulson scripsit:
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>>Besides, you have a better idea? :)
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>Double-encode the vowel marks. As things stand, two Unicode principles
>are in conflict: combining characters come after their bases, and
>natural-language text is encoded in phonetic order (with I think four
>exceptions in Thai and four in Lao as a result of the typewriter-based
>legacy standard). ...
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Hebrew furtive patah is another exception: pronounced before the base
character but encoded after it.

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