From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 11:00:18 CDT
On 13/09/2004 15:45, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> From: "Gerd Schumacher" <Gerd-Schumacher@gmx.de>
>
>> 2. Another invisible diacritics carrier
>>
>> I also found an acute on diphtongs, placed on the boundary of both
>> letters
>> (au, ei, eu, oe, and ui).
>
>
> Wouldn't such diacritic be hold by the currently proposed invisible
> base character (in the Public Review section of the Unicode website),
> by encoding for example:
> a,INVISIBLE LETTER,combining acute,u
> If you think there's a grapheme cluster here, I suggest using ZWJ to
> attach the three default grapheme clusters:
> a,ZWJ,INVISIBLE LETTER,combining acute,ZWJ,u
> to create a kerning ligature between the two vowels.
>
Surely the intention is for <INVISIBLE LETTER, combining acute> to be
equivalent (although it cannot be canonically equivalent) to spacing
acute, U+00B4? But then would this kind of ligature mechanism with ZWNJ
and U+00B4 be appropriate? I would think not.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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