At 19:30 -0500 2003-03-12, Laurentiu Iancu wrote:
I noticed that a new Georgian Extended block was tentatively allocated at
2D00.  The Myanmar block ends with four empty columns, just before the
Georgian block, and the space could conceivably be used to extend the Georgian
block while keeping it contiguous.  I am sure there are good reasons for the
proposed allocation, but am curious which ones.

Myanmar is already known to require its own extensions. Putting Georgian supplementary characters there would force a change in the existing Myanmar block -- forcing the eventual splitting off of another block to deal with the Myanmar extensions. But it also breaks the half-block boundary rule for scripts -- and would be particularly bad in this case because it would split the *start* point of a script across a half-block boundary, when it didn't before.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com




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