Re: Combining Triple Diacritics (N3915) not accepted by UTC #125

From: Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny@eglug.org)
Date: Thu Nov 11 2010 - 00:59:21 CST

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    Or the other way around...

    On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:53:49AM +0200, Klaas Ruppel wrote:
    > Typographic solutions (as established they ever may be) do not solve encoding
    > matters.
    >
    > Best regards,
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    > Khaled Hosny kirjoitti 10.11.2010 kello 20.03:
    >
    >
    > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:11:08PM +0100, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
    >
    > From the Pre-Preliminary minutes of UTC #125 (L2/10-416):
    >
    >
    >
    > C.4 Preliminary Proposal to enable the use of Combining Triple
    >
    > Diacritics in Plain Text (WG2 N3915) [Pentzlin, L2/10-353]
    >
    > - see http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3915.pdf
    >
    >
    >
    > [125-A13] ... UTC does not believe that either solution A or
    > solution B
    >
    > represents an appropriate encoding solution for the text
    >
    > representation problem shown in this document. Appropriate
    >
    > technology involving markup should be applied to the problem of
    >
    > representation of text at this level.
    >
    >
    >
    > This will not happen.
    >
    > Linguists will continue to use their PUA code points (or even their
    >
    > 8-bit fonts), which employ these characters perfectly (albeit using
    >
    > precomposed glyphs for the used combinations).
    >
    >
    > Advanced typesetting engines like TeX (which were invented 30 years ago,
    > mind you) already support wide accents that span multiple characters:
    >
    > $\widehat{abcd}$
    > $\widetilde{abcd}$
    > \bye
    >
    > Even math formulas in new MS Office versions can do that (well it is
    > math because, apparently, only mathematicians cared about that, but I
    > don't see why it should not work for linguists too).
    >
    > Regards,
    > Khaled
    >
    > --
    > Khaled Hosny
    > Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
    > Free font developer
    >
    > 

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer

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