L2/03-073

Date/Time:    Thu Feb 27 17:34:13 EST 2003
Contact:      timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk
Report Type:  Error Report

Comment on LineBreak-4.0.0d4b.txt

U+180E MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR recently had its
General Category changed to Zs.

In the line break file the character still has a
category of CM. Unlike most combining marks this
character affects the form of the letters either side
of it and has no glyph, but rather appears as a small
amount of white space inside the word.

I think it would be better if it had a category of GL
which is given to U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE which
has a similar (but not identical) purpose. (U+202F has
a General Category of Zs too.)

Tim Partridge

timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk