RE: ZWJ, ZWNJ and VS in Latin and other Greek-derived scripts

From: Ruszlan Gaszanov (ruszlan@ather.net)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 17:58:22 CST

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    Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    > This cannot and will not happen.
    >
    > 1. U+200D is not part of any canonical decomposition mapping,
    > and there is 0% chance that the UTC would ever add ZWJ or
    > ZWNJ to such mappings.

    And why not?
       
    > 2. U+00C6 has no decomposition mapping now, and by normalization
    > stability guarantees, none can be added.
    >
    > Please study:
    >
    > http://www.unicode.org/standard/stability_policy.html
    >
    > and in particular, item 3a under Decomposition Mapping in
    > the Normalization Stability Policy.

    Hmmm... ok, though I cannot quite see the rationale behind such restrictive policy.
    Why can't decomposition mappings be version-specific?

    Ruszlan.

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