Re: Sequences of combining characters (from Romanization of Cyrillic and Byzantine legal codes)

From: starner@okstate.edu
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 20:34:00 EDT

  • Next message: Kenneth Whistler: "Re: Sequences of combining characters (from Romanization of Cyrillic and Byzantine legal codes)"

    >The ALA-LC conventions are not the only alternatives available for
    >representation of Abkhaz and/or Khanty/Mansi data in romanization.
    >In fact, you can find such data on the web using alternative
    >romanizations. So it isn't as if the current gap in figuring out
    >precisely how, in Unicode, to represent a double diacritic with
    >another diacritic applied outside the visible double diacritic
    >on a digraph is preventing anyone from using romanized Abkhaz or
    >Khanty/Mansi data in interchange.

    By the same argument, Unicode might as well stop taking new characters; surely, between the 500 Latin characters and dozens of punctuation marks and combining characters and the other 70,000 characters, you can find a way to communicate whatever language or data you need communicated.

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