>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. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
