On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/13/2013 1:24 PM, Stephan Stiller wrote: > >> >> It looks like something that has not been encoded. >>> >> >> What is the reason for not having a true "combining grapheme joiner", one >> that overlays graphemes? Or a code point that instructs that the preceding >> (or following, I guess) code point should be printed at this position but >> otherwise be treated as having zero width? >> >> > The reason is that Unicode is not a text layout language. > > A./ > > That addresses his second quesiton, but not the first. A grapheme combining character would only be usable if a normalized combined character was also defined, and the mapping between the combined characters and the un-combined characters with combiner. In other words adding such a thing wouldn't solve the problem you've posed (adding a combined sj character) since combining characters are (as I understand it) intended to be ephemeral and only fully combined characters are inteneded for communications.
