On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:59:18 +0200 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2011/7/1 Richard Wordingham <[email protected]>: > > I wonder if anyone has some statistics on the use of CGJ. Its > > revised intended use was to disrupt collating sequences, but you > > may be right about its most frequent use being to disrupt canonical > > reordering. A few years ago I concluded it wasn't yet safe to type > > the Welsh place name Llan͏gollen with CGJ. > Why do you need CGJ between "n" and "g" ? Just in case it's collated in Welsh or Tagalog, or something similar. In this word, the fourth letter is 'n' and definitely not 'ng' (e.g. Llangollen comes after Llanberis in Welsh alphabeticial order), but in Welsh you often have to know the word to tell whether 'ng' is one letter or two. Richard.

