RE: Precomposed Tibetan

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 16:25:35 EST

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    Michael,

    > >I was disappointed that Unicode used precomposed encoding for Ethiopic.
    >
    > Heavens, why?

    I assume that you are being tongue-in-cheek. If not:

    Since you key in syllables as consonant+vowel combinations you can keep the
    encoding under 256 characters like most other languages with syllabic glyphs
    and keep the processing consistent with other languages.

    Carl

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