Re: combining marks vs IDS (was: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters)

From: John H. Jenkins ([email protected])
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 13:16:07 CST

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    On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:45 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote:

    > Why are IDSes seen as a stop-gap measure until the described hanzi is
    > separately encoded, whereas combining diacritics are seen as the
    > definitive way to do things?
    >

    Because Unicode does not consider IDSs an appropriate mechanism for
    encoding text. See <http://www.unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html#24>.

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    John H. Jenkins
    [email protected]

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