Re: starters and non-starters

From: Jon Hanna (jon@hackcraft.net)
Date: Tue Feb 02 2010 - 17:11:30 CST

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    spir wrote:
    > This means, I guess, that a combining character sequence's first character is guaranteed to be a starter, ie to have ccc=0.

    Yes.

    > I cannot find whether the converse statement is true: is a following character guaranteed to be a non-starter?

    They are, not only must the sequence start with a starter, but a starter
    starts a new sequence (which may be just itself). If this weren't so,
    then interpretation of a sequence of two starters would be ambiguous.



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