Re: Compression and Unicode [was: Name Compression]

From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@dircon.co.uk)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 06:30:44 EDT


<Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com> wrote:
...

> I noticed that Torsten's scheme assumes that " " and "-" are mutually
> exclusive separators, but this is not true for a handful of Tibetan
> characters that have sequences like " -" or "- " (see list in l_xx.txt).

In transliterating the names for Tibetan characters "-" was used to
represent the letter 0F60 and the vowel 0F71 which are both normally
transliterated by an apostrophe, illegal in Unicode character names.

- Chris



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