On 20/09/2004 19:21, Asmus Freytag wrote:
The draft data is actually at http://www.unicode.org/Public/4.1-Update/NamedSequences-4.1.0d4.txt....
PS for named sequences:
See: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr34
Draft Data: http://www.unicode.org/Public/4.1-Update/NamedCompositeEntities-4.1.0d4.txt
(the last part of the file name may change to NamedSequences*.txt).
For now, new drafts will change the numbering.
Is the intention of these named sequences to list all sequences which are commonly considered to be units, although not treated as such by Unicode? There are certainly some in Hebrew - at least dotted shin, dotted sin and holam male, quite possibly all base characters with dagesh. Is the intention to name all sequences which actually occur as grapheme clusters? If so, a list of many thousands is needed for Hebrew.
I think that would be of little value, esp. with the fact that Hebrew is not composed. Named sequences are useful to allow a sequence to be listed as part of a repertoire that contains otherwise only atomic or pre-composed entities.
Where the sequence is supported as an alphabetic presentation form, e.g. FB2A, FB2B and FB4B, will there be an equivalent named sequence, or will the alphabetic presentation form name be used also for the sequence, or will there simply be no need to define a sequence? Two different names for the same thing could cause confusion.
It would. I think we are still haggling out those details - this stuff is currently open for public review.
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