Re: Proposed Expansion of Grapheme Clusters to Whole Aksharas - Implementation Issues

Good point, thanks

Mark

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 6:41 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <
unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:34:12 -0800
> Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>
> > The ZWJ Virama sequence is already provided for by the combination of
> > GB9 & GB9c. But not the ZWNJ. If we want to handle that, it would
> > mean the addition of something like:
> >
> > GB9d: × (ZWNJ ViramaExtend* Virama)
>
> I don't think we need ViramaExtend* here. The seqeunce should be
> followed by a base consonant, so there's no way for another mark to
> sneak in.
>
> Incidentally, I think ViramaExtend would be better named as NSExtend,
> with 'NS' for 'non-starter'.
>
> Richard.
>
>
Received on Mon Jan 22 2018 - 21:35:23 CST