RE: Precomposed Tibetan

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 17:15:56 EST

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    At 13:53 -0800 2002-12-17, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    >The question for Unicoders is whether introduction of significant
    >normalization problems into Tibetan (for everyone) is a worthwhile tradeoff
    >for this claimed legacy ease of transition for one system, when it is
    >clear that all existing legacy data using these precomposed stacks is
    >going to have to either be reencoded anyway (or surrounded by migration
    >filters for new systems).

    Is it a question? To do so would be a disaster for the encoding of Tibetan.

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    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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