At 20:09 -0700 2002-08-12, Doug Ewell wrote: >Everybody will welcome the new conventional, graphical-type >characters and scripts that are coming with Unicode 4.0. But maybe >before standardizing another COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER or other >control-type character, it would be prudent to study the angles even >more thoroughly and carefully, and make *damn* sure the character is >going to be usable and not discouraged or even deprecated at birth.
I tried to get some proper discussion papers on the CGJ from its advocates but they never really appeared. I still have misgivings about this beastly thing. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
