On 23/07/2003 14:18, Mark Davis wrote:
Peter,
This all depends on whether the UTC approves, at the upcoming meeting
in August, the proposal to extend the use of CGJ to allow for
inclusion within sequences of combining marks in order to prevent
reordering of those marks.
Of course, it could be used right now for that purpose, in the sense
that it would have that effect, and there is nothing in TUS that would
prevent its usage. But, as you point out, it would be far better if
the semantics of the character were explicitly extended so that it was
clear to people that this is a recommended usage.
Mark
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Understood. I would certainly hope for an explicit UTC decision to
support this use of CGJ. My point in much of what I have been writing
today is that this use of CGJ is not some kind of abuse of a character
for a totally inappropriate purpose, but a specific use of it in line
with its existing generally intended use and implemented by default in
systems which follow the Unicode recommendations.
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Peter Kirk
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