From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 13:16:07 CST
On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:45 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote:
> Why are IDSes seen as a stop-gap measure until the described hanzi is
> separately encoded, whereas combining diacritics are seen as the
> definitive way to do things?
>
Because Unicode does not consider IDSs an appropriate mechanism for
encoding text. See <http://www.unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html#24>.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
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