Well, it isn't prohibited, so I guess you will need to be forever vigilant in 
view of the possibility that somebody might get it in their head to encode some 
combining mark that isn't already accounted for in Tibetan *and* that they 
would simultaneously insist that a precomposed form of that mark applied to a 
two-part Tibetan vowel need also be encoded (despite the fact that the 
precomposed two-part vowel is itself discouraged from use and the sequence 
could be represented by the individual pieces, which is what all the 
Tibetanists want to do anyway), *and* that nobody on either encoding committee 
would be paying any attention and view this as a fishy thing to do, *and* that 
nobody would notice there was a problem during the international balloting, 
*and* that nobody would raise a stink during beta review when their Tibetan 
normalization implementation raised exceptions.

Dumb things can and occasionally do happen to the standard, but I'm not losing 
much sleep worrying about this particular dumb thing happening. Trying to 
legislate against anything dumb happening by adding more and more stability 
guarantees has its own set of risks and downsides, in part because the Unicode 
stability guarantees are only seen as binding by the Unicode Consortium, and 
are not recognized in the ISO process.

--Ken

> No.  I am trying to confirm that there will never be any character but
> U+0344, U+0F73, U+0F75 and U+0F81 that has a non-singleton canonical
> decomposition to non-starters.  The only way I see can for that to
> happen is a decomposition via one of U+0F73, U+0F75 and U+0F81 such as
> from U+E4567 to <U+0F73, U+E4568>, and I cannot see where this is
> prohibited.



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