Re: Display of Isolated Nonspacing Marks (was Re: Questions on ZWNBS...)

From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 06:03:30 EDT

  • Next message: Peter Kirk: "Re: Display of Isolated Nonspacing Marks (was Re: Questions on ZWNBS...)"

    On 05/08/2003 17:13, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    >Peter Kirk said:
    >
    >
    >
    >> From what Ken says, it sounds like it will be wrong from whenever
    >>Unicode 4.0 is officially issued
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Actually Unicode 4.0 was officially issued on April 17, 2003.
    >
    >What we are waiting on now is for the publication of the text
    >of the book to catch up to that fact. ;-)
    >
    >
    >
    > ...
    >
    >>I was misled by Jim's
    >>reference to the URL of the final draft (as clearly stamped on the first
    >>page) of 4.0, but since in fact he was quoting from 3.0 what he says can
    >>hardly be considered obsolete yet.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Actually it can. And that would have been obvious to everyone if
    >a preview version of Chapter 4 had also been posted.
    >
    >Once again, I appeal to people to stop trying to second-guess
    >the text of the standard. The final pdf for the online version
    >is in preparation even as I write this. The final final
    >proofs for the book itself have already been produced by
    >the printer -- all they need to do now is turn on the press
    >and start the binder.
    >
    >If everyone would just go off for a week or two on their
    >August vacation, like they should be, we could all come back
    >about Labor Day and we wouldn't have to be having these
    >discussions. ;-)
    >
    >--Ken
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    OK, understood now. As the previous version is obsolete, and the new one
    is unavailable, we can all take a break from conforming to Unicode at
    all and take a vacation! Sounds a good idea to me ;-)

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
    peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com
    http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
    


    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Aug 06 2003 - 06:50:55 EDT