Re: Conflicting principles

[John Jenkins]

Speaking purely as an old fart, I'd say the former.  We already break 
the latter principle in Thai and Lao, and having be prepared to scan 
either forward or backward from a base character in order to find its 
combining marks would add overhead to a lot of code, including existing 
code.

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 2:16 PM, John Cowan wrote:

I would like to ask the old farts^W^Wrespected elders of the UTC
which principle they consider more important, abstractly speaking:
the principle that combining marks always follow their base characters
(a typographical principle), or that text is stored, with a few minor
exceptions, in phonetic order (a lexicographical principle).

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