> From: Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:11:23 +0200
> Cc: Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>, Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse_at_ilyaz.org>, ken_at_unicode.org,
> James Clark <jjc_at_jclark.com>, unicode Unicode Discussion <unicode_at_unicode.org>
>
> > In addition, assuming that by "guillemets" Philippe means U+00AB and
> > U+00BB,
>
>
> "guillemet" is THE correct name, even in English. "guillemot" comes from an
> old typo error.
I didn't mean to say "guillemet" was typo, I just wasn't sure which
Unicode codepoint you had in mind, since you didn't show its full
official name or its codepoint. And at least your original message
used "<<" and ">>" transliterations, not the actual characters.
> > they cannot possibly form a bracketed pair, because their
> > General Category is not Ps and Pe. For that reason, you will never
> > find them in BidiBrackets.txt.
> >
>
> Forget the general category, we know that it does not solve any
> internationalization issue correctly. All past versions of Unicode
> algorthms that initially attempted to use them now use them only as
> informative rules (which are not stabilized) to help generate new "derived"
> properties (which should be used verbatim from the content of the UCD,
> because rapidly new exceptions are added to the rules).
>
> The guillemet evidently form a pair even if their use depends on languages
> which may swap their role (and this is the main reason why they are not
> assigned Ps and Pe because Ps and Pe will be swapped. They are still a pair
> which works even better than """ that can be paired in 3 different ways and
> not just two (meaning that you don't know which one to look for.
They are not a pair for the purposes of the PBA, which is the subject
of this discussion. Your message, viz.:
> - later the closing guillemet matches the opening guillemet remaining on
> the stack, even if the second opening bracket was pushed on top of it :
> pair of guillemets is matched, the opening guillement is dropped from the
> stack but the second bracket on top of it remains there and can also match
> now the following closing bracket.
indicated that you thought the guillemets could form a bracket pair,
which they cannot, according to the UBA.
> So nothing (at least not the reason of the GC which is just an intermediate
> but incomplete helper) forbids the guillemets to be listed in
> BidiBrackets.txt.
They don't satisfy the conditions for that. From BidiBrackets.txt:
# This file lists the set of code points with Bidi_Paired_Bracket_Type
# property values Open and Close. The set is derived from the character
# properties General_Category (gc), Bidi_Class (bc), Bidi_Mirrored (Bidi_M),
# and Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph (bmg), as follows: two characters, A and B,
# form a bracket pair if A has gc=Ps and B has gc=Pe, both have bc=ON and
# Bidi_M=Y, and bmg of A is B. Bidi_Paired_Bracket (bpb) maps A to B and
# vice versa, and their Bidi_Paired_Bracket_Type (bpt) property values are
# Open (o) and Close (c), respectively.
As you see, Ps and Pe are explicitly required.
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