Re: CLDR: Bad exemplar chars for some locales

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2006 - 18:40:09 CST

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    On 4/5/2006 5:03 PM, Peter Edberg wrote:
    > We are planning to use CLDR exemplar character set data for various
    > purposes, and so I have been looking into some current exemplar sets
    > (as indicated by the survey tool at
    > <http://unicode.org/cldr/apps/survey>). The exemplar sets are
    > "supposed to represent the set of characters needed to write the form
    > of the language that is currently in use" (per Deborah Goldsmith). By
    > this criterion, several of them include characters that seem to me to
    > be inappropriate. I wanted to get some feedback on these, and then try
    > to get them changed ASAP (via bugs etc.). In all cases below I am
    > referring to the standard exemplar set, not the auxiliary characters.
    >
    > 1. Arabic (ar) & Persian (fa):
    > - Both of these include 200C and 200D (ZWNJ and ZWJ). I would argue
    > that these characters are not required in order to write Arabic or
    > Persian.
    >
    >

    I believe that extensive discussion on the bidi list has established
    that ZWNJ is indeed needed for Persian.

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