Re: An attempt to focus the PUA discussion [long]

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 18:14:16 EDT

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    On 29/04/2004 13:18, Ernest Cline wrote:

    >
    >... It simply is impossible
    >to simulate non-zero canonical combining class characters in Unicode
    >with anything other than a character with the appropriate canonical
    >combining class. ...
    >

    True. But fortunately Unicode don't really need to worry about
    normalisation of PUA data, as this is surely out of its scope. So it
    would not be fatal to use class 0 combining characters in PUA scripts,
    and leave to the user any possible burden of ensuring that multiple
    combining marks are correctly ordered. It would be enough to indicate
    that a particular character is, or is currently being used as, a
    combining mark.

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    Peter Kirk
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