> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Why couldn't there exist a combining subscript modifier, added after a base > character, to make it look like a subscript, and that could be given a maximum > combining class 255? Because this is Unicode and not CourtyardCode? This is *not* a good idea. > So that's > something which can be handled in fonts. I need to create *ligatures* for thousands of possible base-subscript pairs in all of my fonts? I've got to decide how I should display < a, combining acute, combining subscript modifier >, possibly adding thousands more base-subscript-combining mark ligatures into my font? I've got to decide how I should display an Arabic sequence like < seen, seen, combining subscript modifier, seen > (what does or doesn't connect?)? And Devanagari < ka, virama, combining subscript modifier, ssa >? And < c, ZWJ, t, combining subscript modifier > or < c, combining subscript modifier, ZWJ, t >? I've got to decide how I should display < U+00B2 superscript two, combining subscript modifier > and < U+2081 subscript one, combining subscript modifier >? Not to mention that I've got to tell our app developers they have to figure out whether users expect < subscript one > and < digit one, combining subscript modifier > to sort together and be matched in searches? And whether < digit one, digit two, combining subscript modifier > is interpreted as having a numeric value of 12 or 1? I don't think this rocket will make it off the pad, let alone past the tower. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division
