From: Sinnathurai Srivas (sisrivas@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 15:51:39 CDT
Invisible letter will cause havoc in data processing.
I do not think dotted circle, nor invisible nor any form of forced
conversion of data will cause untold difficulties in the future.
Sinnathurai
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
To: "Unicode Discussion" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: dotted circle
> At 13:57 +0100 2006-07-11, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>On 11 Jul 2006, at 12:47 pm, N. Ganesan wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks for all thosw who replied
>>>(We will use NBSP in Vista in the future)
>>
>>NBSP is not a solution here, because it will (should) result in the
>>combining mark being displayed on a space, rather than combined with the
>>preceding letter. That *might* be OK, depending exactly how the font is
>>designed, for U+0BBE, for example, but not for U+0B82.
>
> It sounds to me as though we need an INVISIBLE LETTER.
>
> See http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2822.pdf
>
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> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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