On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:42:02 +0600 Christopher Fynn <chris.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Simply stacking glyphs doesn't really work In Tibetan either. <snip> > Very rarely you find occurrences of vowels written in the middle of a > stack - or even one consonant written horizontally beside another in > the middle of a vertical stack. I don't think anything handles these > things properly though. I have been advised that these are not plain text. I did once read that there was a way of encoding vowels in the middle of a stack, but I never found out what it was. The only connection these details have with COENG is that I have envisaged a horizontal combining control character for specifying such sideways progressions in the middle of a stack. It did seem excessive to have a third or even fourth set of characters, though we have been assured there is plenty of space left in the supplementary planes. Richard.
