At 16:49 -0800 2002-05-03, Mark Davis wrote: >I agree with David. I had mentioned this earlier as a possiblity, but >the latest UTC changes in Table 5-3 to use ignorables make it even >more attractive. (Cf >http://www.macchiato.com/utc/grapheme_cluster.html) > >The sole change required would be for the CGJ to be Me instead of Mn. >If we made this change, it would provide for a mechanism for >representing diacritics over multiple characters, without the addition >of any other characters -- or the wait for them to be encoded.
I always thought one of the reasons this character got encoded was precisely to identify entities which were considered unitary, and therefore which would centre a following diacritic over the whole lot. I was surprised to hear that it was not going to do that. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
