From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 12:36:17 CDT
> From: asadek@st-elias.com [mailto:asadek@st-elias.com]
> > You should not be making generic assumptions about what software
vendors
> > will do,
>
> I need to ask someone's permission?
Not because you need someone's permission, but because such general
assumptions are not likely to be valid.
> (Loved your combining mark stacking, just proves what can be done and
that
> diacritic placement seems not the insuperable problem M. Whistler
alluded to in
> the Arabic case, he may be right -- a well researched document may
have
> proved that it is indeed an insuperable one, but as he said there is
none.)
What Ken was referring to as insuperable (did he actually use that
word?) was not the issue of diacritic placement. Rather, the problems
that blocked changing at this late date to a dynamic composition model
for Arabic have to do with the issues related to normalization (both
technical and political) and the vast legacy of implementations that use
a precomposing model.
Peter Constable
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