From: James Kass (jameskass@att.net)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 01:13:00 CST
Chris Harvey wrote,
> I'm working on a language which uses grapheme clusters (e.g. or ).
>
> The speakers want it so these clusters are treated as single "letters" in
> character counts as well as for backspacing. So a word like "kwang" could
> be deleted with three backspace keystrokes.
Does the written language use upper and lower case? If so, would the word
"kwang" be capitalized "Kwang" or "KWang"?
> The users seem determined to put the entire alphabet into the PUA, thus
> making a single character for , , etc. I would like to be
> able to present them with something that works and avoid this kind of
> catastrophe.
(Interesting how my ISP's "WebMail" is dropping the material which was in
angle brackets, even though I'm replying in plain text.)
If your users wanted to change their orthography (probably a big IF), they
could use single characters like the ENG for "ng" and maybe the "ij ligature"
for "ii".
Best regards,
James Kass
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