On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:14:08 -0700 "Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's 2012. How does one get through to folks like this? Even people who should know better can get confused about character sets. Does anyone know what 'a complex script Unicode range' is? It's a term that occurs in the Office Open XML specification, but I can't find a definition for it. It's just possible that it means a range where hypothetically unassigned characters would not be left-to-right, but I've a feeling it ought to include Vietnamese characters for all that they're Latin script. Possibly the definitions have not been provided because the concept ought to involve the tricky task of breaking text runs into script runs. (Lots of people feel one should be able to add script-specific combining marks to U+25CC DOTTED CIRCLE, U+2013 EN DASH and U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN or perhaps even U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X. U+0964 DEVANAGARI DANDA is used with the Latin, Devanagari and Tamil scripts, to name but a few.) Richard.
