Re: Alternative sorting for digraphs (Was Re: [OT] o-circumflex)

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 19:59:57 EDT


On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Mark Davis wrote:

> A ZWNJ will break ligatures and cursive connections. While probably safe in
> Danish or Dutch, it is unclear to me that that is safe in all languages
> where this situation occurs. There are diagraphs in Urdu, for example. While
> I don't know their sorting order, if they do sort separately then ZWNJ can't
> be used to express the alternative sorting, since it would give the wrong
> rendering.

:'-(

I would like to ask for stopping the overuse of ZWNJ. I once loved that
character... What about *renaming* the character to "Zero Width
All-Purpose Everything Breaker"?

roozbeh



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