From: Don Osborn (dzo@bisharat.net)
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 07:01:18 CST
A couple of quick questions. First, about how long would the list of
combinations be?
Second, if the number is significant, might it make sense to approach this
as a "Web 2.0" task, using perhaps a wiki? Under such an approach, very
short articles could be designed to give minimal documentation and
references, as well as relevant technical information. There would of course
be some details to resolve about who can contribute, how contributions are
vetted, etc., but the biggest issue would probably be the resources to
set-up and maintain such a resource.
The bottom line is that (a) there appears to be a need for some such
resource and (b) no individual or expert group could be expected to come up
with all combinations that need support. The question is whether we're only
talking about a relative handful of cases, or whether the number of
combinations is significant enough to require a new resource to present
them. (I assume that there will always be the potential for new combinations
to arise, which would be another reason to have a resource that users could
contribute to directly.)
Don
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Peter Consable wrote on Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:30 PM:
How would you suggest anybody do the homework needed to discover that
arbitrary & not-well-documented language X uses combining character sequence
<Y, Z>? Can you predict who might take an interest in a particular combining
mark sequence two years from now?
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philip chastney wrote on Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:37 AM:
... if the spec were restricted to known combinations found in natural
languages with alphabetic orthographies, the list needn't be that long
this list could encompass ligatures as well as characters with diacritical
markings, and include ligatures with diacritical markings -- maybe not
three tied characters, though, unless it was clear that they were few in
number -- and probably not vowel shaping
such a list would be an asset to font designers
and it would help re-assure users of minority languages that their needs are
known, and will (eventually) be met
Unicode.org's website would be suitable repository
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