Re: Dependent vowels

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Oct 30 1998 - 13:33:50 EST


Mark Leisher wrote:

> Someone was asking me recently why they should use the Unicode Indic dependent
> vowels internally. I don't see any reason to use them [...] They are
> only useful for rendering.

Hmm. I speak without any domain-specific knowledge, but doesn't
that qualify them for having Unicode compatibility decompositions?

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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