On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:45:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >For that reason, I dont like form D at all. I wonder how much space > >it would take to represent every possible Jamo-combination, then just > >do away with combining characters alltogether... > > Besides Korean, Arabic and Hebrew both need combining characters, as do > many, many minor languages (Lakota, Navaho, Sioux, etc.) You're looking > at least a few hundred characters there. > > But that's not your big problem. Both phonetic alphabets (IPA, UPA > and dictionary phonetic systems, among others) and mathematics make > liberal use of combining marks. To replace thoses, you'll basically > need to encode the cross of 30+ combining marks times 31+ combining > marks times 1200 Latin, Greek and mathematical characters. Be prepared > to add more, as requests will come pouring in for three or four combining > marks on a character, or weird combinations under a double combining mark.
Yes, I think combining characters are good for those purposes, but not for real letters, that are used in real languages. I think this is how it was thought of in ISO 10646 when the standard was approved. Kind regards keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
