On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:52:12 -0800 Garth Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Richard Wordingham < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > When someone enters text with the code points in the wrong order but > > the text renders to give the appearance that should have been > > intended, has the typist misspelt, miscoded or what? I am talking > > about sequences that are *not* even compatibility equivalent to > > what should have been entered. > > > > Richard. > > > > You mean like when a font puts combining diacritics over the > following base character, and people type it in that order so it > looks right on their screen? No. I particularly have in mind Tai Tham script pairs like ᩉᩨ᩠ᨾ /hɯːm/ <HIGH HA, SIGN UUE, SAKOT, MA> (MFL p831) and ᩉ᩠ᨾᩨ /mɯː/ <HIGH HA, SAKOT, MA, SIGN UUE> (MFL p793), which look identical with a competent renderer but are sorted differently. The page references are to a Northern Thai to Thai dictionary. ᩛRichard.
