Re: Re: What constitutes "character"? New Problem

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2001 - 17:03:14 EST


At 13:19 11/10/2001, Dhrubajyoti Banerjee wrote:

>>Would somebody tell me what a ZWJ control is and how to include it in
>>documents i create for Unicode compliant softwares.
>>
>>Please comment on the above and give a possible solution.
>
>ZWJ is the Zero Width Joiner and prevents the joining of consecutive
>characters on output.

I think mean ZWNJ (Zero Width Non Joiner) if you wish to prevent the
joining of consecutive characters on output.

Regarding the data sorting issue you raised, I believe the ZWNJ should be
ignored in all data sorting: it is a formatting control character.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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