From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 08:39:07 CST
Quoting "Don Osborn" <dzo@bisharat.net>:
> A couple of quick questions. First, about how long would the list of
> cominations be?
>
Very long, though a worth while list, over a thousand, so let's say
thousands of combinations.
>
> Second, if the number is significant, might it make sense to approach this
> as a "Web 2.0" task, using perhaps a wiki? Under such an approach, very
> short articles could be designed to give minimal documentation and
> references, as well as relevant technical information. There would of course
> be some details to resolve about who can contribute, how contributions are
> vetted, etc., but the biggest issue would probably be the resources to
> set-up and maintain such a resource.
>
IMHO it would be hard for such a set up to carry much weight. There is
also the question of how one deals with combinations which in several
languages and the required rendering is different.
>
> The bottom line is that (a) there appears to be a need for some such
> resource and (b) no individual or expert group could be expected to come up
> with all combinations that need support. The question is whether we're only
> talking about a relative handful of cases, or whether the number of
> combinations is significant enough to require a new resource to present
> them. (I assume that there will always be the potential for new combinations
> to arise, which would be another reason to have a resource that users could
> contribute to directly.)
>
Large, though a new use of an existing resource might well work.
>
> Don
>
> --------------------------
> Peter Consable wrote on Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:30 PM:
>
> How would you suggest anybody do the homework needed to discover that
> arbitrary & not-well-documented language X uses combining character sequence
> <Y, Z>? Can you predict who might take an interest in a particular combining
> mark sequence two years from now?
>
> ...
>
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> philip chastney wrote on Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:37 AM:
>
> ... if the spec were restricted to known combinations found in natural
> languages with alphabetic orthographies, the list needn't be that long
>
> this list could encompass ligatures as well as characters with diacritical
> markings, and include ligatures with diacritical markings -- maybe not
> three tied characters, though, unless it was clear that they were few in
> number -- and probably not vowel shaping
>
> such a list would be an asset to font designers
>
> and it would help re-assure users of minority languages that their needs are
> known, and will (eventually) be met
>
> Unicode.org's website would be suitable repository
>
> ...
>
>
>
>
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