Re: Unifying E_Modifier and Extend in UAX 29 (i.e. the necessity of GB10)

2018-01-01 Thread Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode
This is an interesting suggestion, Manish. is a degenerate case, so if we following your suggestion we also could drop E_Base and E_Modifier, and rule GB10. Instead, we'd add one line to *Extend :* OLD

Re: Unifying E_Modifier and Extend in UAX 29 (i.e. the necessity of GB10)

2018-01-01 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 13:24:29 +0530 Manish Goregaokar via Unicode wrote: > sounds very much like a > degenerate case to me. Generally yes, but I'm not sure that they'd be inappropriate for Egyptian hieroglyphs showing human beings. The choice of determinative can convey

Re: Popular wordprocessors treating U+00A0 as fixed-width

2018-01-01 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
I do not call them by names, what I call is their reply, even when people explain them, and when they even suggest something else which is obviously wrong (and in fact absolutely not needed in Office which offers another way using styles for controling linebreaks without having to change the

RE: Popular wordprocessors treating U+00A0 as fixed-width

2018-01-01 Thread Jonathan Rosenne via Unicode
May we all please keep this discussion civil. People, being human, may sometimes make mistakes, but that does not necessarily justify calling them names. Best Regards, Jonathan Rosenne From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy via Unicode Sent: Monday,