Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > Never mind him, go for whoever decided that 11,172 precomposed Johab Hangul
> > syllables should be in KSC 5601 and hence in Unicode instead of being font
> > glyphs. (Unicode Version 2.0, pp. 6-114--115, 7-420--469) :-[
>
> It is not of personal importance for me, since we will have very few users
> of Far East scripts here! But Arabic is the script I use everyday, so I
> will let some Hangul writer punish the other guy... ;)
Furthermore, the relationship between Hangul jamo and syllables is
at least algorithmic (a few multiplications and additions),
whereas the Arabic $@#* is far from algorithmic. Best advice
is to use only the 06xx Arabics and the ZWJ/ZWNJ and skip the
compatibility characters altogether.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge / Politzer
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