From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Nov 14 2005 - 09:53:59 CST
From: "Christopher Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>
> Should the "exemplar characters" for a language include all the
> base+combining character *combinations* frequent in that language
> or - all the base characters and all the combining characters listed
> separately?
For English, the combinations listed are not frequent, so they are in the
auxiliary set. But for all languages using diacritics frequently or that do
require them for correct orthography, these combinations are in the examplar
set (that's why, for example the French examplar characters set contains "é"
which is defnitely not part of the auxiliary set, as it is required for
correct and normal French orthography ; the German set will contain "ß" in
the examplar set, but French will not even list it in the auxiliary set as
it is converted to "ss".in the examplar set; for modern Greek, greek letters
with tonos are part of the examplar set, but other diacritics used in
classic Greek are in the auxiliary set).
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