Re: 2 Tibetan characters and one alias do not obey names rules

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Mar 19 2010 - 11:35:47 CST

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    > > Section 4.8 of TUS 5.2 says:
    > >
    > > R3
    > > U+002D hyphen-minus does not occur ... immediately preceding a space
    > > character.
    > >
    > > But these characters violate that:
    > > U+0F0A TIBETAN MARK BKA- SHOG YIG MGO
    > > U+0FD0 TIBETAN MARK BSKA- SHOG GI MGO RGYAN
    > > U+0FD0 TIBETAN MARK BKA- SHOG GI MGO RGYAN
    >
    > They certainly do conform to the character naming rules, but the
    > "Character Name Syntax" rules -- which seem to have been newly added
    > to the text of Unicode 5.2 -- misstate the rules with regard to the
    > hyphen-minus character.

    This error in the text of Unicode 5.2 is being corrected
    for Unicode 6.0 as we speak, so to speak.

    --Ken



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