Peter Kirk scripsit:Well, "arbitrary" perhaps goes too far. But if they are incorrect it would be better if they were totally incorrect rather than a little bit so - on the same basis that you are more likely to miss the bus because of a clock that is five minutes slow than because of one that is obviously telling totally the wrong time.
Or else simply state that combining classes are assigned arbitrarily - as also needs to happen with Unicode character names which similarly contain uncorrectable errors.
Let's not overdo it. Names, or combining classes, that are not in hindsight 100% appropriate does not justify saying that the assignments are arbitrary. If we called "A" LATIN SMALL LETTER B, or OZMA VEEBLEFESTER SCRITCHIFCHISTED, then there might be some justification for calling it arbitrary.
Anyway, some of the Unicode names for Hebrew accents are just as inaccurate as calling "a" LATIN SMALL LETTER B, and some of the names of extended Cyrillic characters are just as confusing as that.
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