The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review
and comment. Details are on the following web page:
http://www.unicode.org/review/
Review periods for the new item closes on January 27, 2004.
Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
Briefly, the new issue is:
Issue #27 Joiner/Nonjoiner in Combining Character Sequences
Unicode 4.0 describes the structure of Khmer syllables, saying that they
may contain an interior ZWJ. There is a problem with this that needs to be
resolved in 4.0.1, because some of the characters later in the syllable can
be combining characters. This paper describes a proposal with to fix this
problem. As a part of the proposal, a choice has to be made among two
alternatives.
If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by
submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:
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comments for UTC consideration.
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Let me take this opportunity also to remind everyone that the closing date
for comment on several other public review issues is approaching, so if
you have comments, please try to send them in soon.
Note: If you are a liaison representative, please forward this message as
appropriate within your organization.
Regards,
Rick McGowan
Unicode, Inc.
