From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 21:34:54 EST
Mark Davis wrote:
> You could conceivably restrict your dream programming language to only
> 'complete' default grapheme clusters, defined as those where the
> addition of previous characters would never change that boundary, but
> in practice I don't think your dream language would be particularly
> useful at, well, actual programming.
In practice it's impossible to restrict only to "complete" default
grapheme clusters: look at Hangul, and take a "complete" syllable;
you can still extend that cluster by prepending another leading
consonnant (which is, by itself a complete Hangul syllable).
With the restriction to "complete" DGCs, you could not write
in Korean! However you could guarantee it provided that you
don't only concatenate strings, but ensure that each instance does
not contain defective sequences, and you add a forced space
character between the two concatenated strings (this is apparently
what Word does when copy/pasting words)
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