Re: Unicode: endpoint of evolution of encodings? (was Re: gcc and utf-8 source)

2004-11-17 Thread Antoine Leca
srintuar wrote: > FWIW, I'd assert that "j" in Spanish is not the same thing as > "j" in English (and that one is easily proved), apart from them being > represented with the same *glyph*. You picked (certainly involuntarily) a very instructive example. I am living in Spain, so I feel qualified to

Re: Unicode: endpoint of evolution of encodings? (was Re: gcc and utf-8 source)

2004-11-16 Thread Christopher Fynn
srintuar wrote: This may be more of a practical issue: for some scripts such as Korean, representing every possible character and partial character could require a very large amount of codespace. We only have the precomposed characters now for compatibility with platforms that simply dont support c

Re: Unicode: endpoint of evolution of encodings? (was Re: gcc and utf-8 source)

2004-11-16 Thread srintuar
Danilo Segan wrote: New policies such as "no more precomposed glyphs" also indicate that we're talking about glyph repository, not about character repository (i.e. "no more precomposed glyphs, since you can get those glyphs by combining existing glyphs", even though they may have entirely d

Unicode: endpoint of evolution of encodings? (was Re: gcc and utf-8 source)

2004-11-16 Thread Danilo Segan
Hi, Today at 13:44, srintuar wrote: > As for serbian, I dont think that really has much to do with unicode > itself. You could apply a special folding algorithm when doing > searches in a serbian context, but I dont think you would want to make > the script ambiguous. I'd rather make script amb