Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2008 - 01:07:37 CST

  • Next message: Jukka K. Korpela: "Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters"

    "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela at cs dot tut dot fi> wrote:

    > I think it is best to explain realistically that characters with
    > diacritic marks will not be added to Unicode as separately encoded,
    > i.e. as code points, as a matter of policy. You can say this in
    > different formulations and tones, of course. There’s no point in
    > getting into long arguments.

    In fairness, I can't fault Karl for wanting to provide a newcomer with a
    reasoned explanation for the policy, especially if the results are
    unsatisfactory with many fonts and rendering engines (they are with
    mine*).

    Newcomers hate it when we tell them, "That's just the way it is.
    Unicode won't change. Deal with it."

    --
    Doug Ewell  *  Thornton, Colorado, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
    http://www.ewellic.org
    http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html
    http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages  ˆ
    *Windows XP SP 3; Uniscribe version 1.0420.2600.5512; default Web font = 
    Georgia, dated 2004-08-04.
    


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