Re: A few questions about decomposition, equvalence and rendering

From: David Hopwood (david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 22:29:38 EST


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Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> ... See CompositionExclusions.txt, which
> has a special section mentioning just these four oddballs:
>
> # ================================================
> # (4) Non-Starter Decompositions
> # These characters can be derived from the UnicodeData file
> # by including all characters whose canonical decomposition consists
> # of a sequence of characters, the first of which has a non-zero
> # combining class.

Shouldn't that say, "a sequence of two characters"? Taken literally
this definition includes characters with a canonical decomposition
that is a single combining character.

(To forestall the obvious objection, no, using the plural does not
imply more than one: any decomposition is "a sequence of characters".)

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