Kenneth Whistler scripsit: > D17a Defective combining character sequence: A combining character > sequence that does not start with a base character. > > * Defective combining character sequences occur when a sequence > of combining characters appears at the start of a string or > follows a control or format character. Such sequences are > defective from the point of view of handling of combining > marks, but are not ill-formed. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What, if anything, does the term "ill-formed" mean when attached to a sequence of characters? I understood that every sequence of characters whatsoever is permitted. -- "But the next day there came no dawn, John Cowan and the Grey Company passed on into the [EMAIL PROTECTED] darkness of the Storm of Mordor and were http://www.ccil.org/~cowan lost to mortal sight; but the Dead http://reutershealth.com followed them. --"The Passing of the Grey Company"
