You are getting personal and indulging in ad hominem. I consider this out of order. Yes I have read TUS Section 2.2, and indeed the whole of the rest of the book - and understood it, too, so you can stop wondering that right now.
Unicode design principles do not change the fact that there are inconsistencies within Unicode, and it is nice to have a forum in which we can discuss such inconsistencies without being personally insulted. The very fact that the character "circled 2" exists AT ALL is at odds with Unicode design priniciples, as it should rightly have been encoded as "2" + ENCLOSING CIRCLE. Or - alternatively - perhaps there should have been no enclosing circle modifier (and no circle-enclosed glyphs) at all, since enclosing circle should have been considered markup.
The fact is, whenever there is one rule in one place and a different rule somewhere else, people are going to talk about it. I do not regard this as a bad thing. I have disagreed with many people in this forum, but I have never insulted anyone. I would like to believe that that is how rational discussion proceeds.
Jill
> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew C. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 9:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Complex Combining > > > Whenever I read threads like this one > (and they resurface > with monotonous regularity) I do wonder whether the > participants have ever read > TUS Section 2.2 "Unicode Design Principles". > > Andrew
