From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 15:58:12 EDT
On 08/08/2003 12:35, John Cowan wrote:
>Peter Kirk scripsit:
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>>What if there is a line break between the two characters joined by a
>>double width combining character?
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>That would be unbelievably atrocious typography. Double-width CCs are a
>hack, but a useful hack. Creating a factitious double-width CC that is
>actually only single width is Unicode abuse. It's *creative* abuse, to
>be sure, but abuse nonetheless.
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>>Are arbitrary line breaks in the middle of words actually permitted
>>anyway?
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>Sure. A line-break like "pre-
>posterous" would be encoded in English-mode Tengwar with the "e" vowel over
>the "p" consonant at the beginning of the second line.
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Well, I'm not sure what Unicode specifies on word breaks with
hyphenations, but I would expect such break opportunities in general
either to be signalled by a specific soft hyphen character, or to follow
language-specific rules. Presumably no one would put a soft hyphen in a
meaningless position, and language-specific rules should avoid
inappropriate splitting or define what happens to the odd diacritics.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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