From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 06:24:45 EST
At 19:30 -0500 2003-03-12, Laurentiu Iancu wrote:
>I noticed that a new Georgian Extended block was tentatively allocated at
>2D00. The Myanmar block ends with four empty columns, just before the
>Georgian block, and the space could conceivably be used to extend the Georgian
>block while keeping it contiguous. I am sure there are good reasons for the
>proposed allocation, but am curious which ones.
Myanmar is already known to require its own extensions. Putting
Georgian supplementary characters there would force a change in the
existing Myanmar block -- forcing the eventual splitting off of
another block to deal with the Myanmar extensions. But it also breaks
the half-block boundary rule for scripts -- and would be particularly
bad in this case because it would split the *start* point of a script
across a half-block boundary, when it didn't before.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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