Fw: Re: Compliant Tailoring of Normalisation for the Unicode Collation Algorithm

From: <vanisaac_at_boil.afraid.org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 21:20:26 -0700

From: Ken Whistler <kenw_at_sybase.com>
> On 5/16/2012 2:54 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > I have been wondering if U+0078 LATIN
> > SMALL LETTER X should be made common script because of its use for
> > displaying Lao vowels, but perhaps the principle of separation of
> > scripts should lead to LAO LETTER SMALL X.
>
> Please, no! ;-)
>
> Orthographies which mix in random characters from other scripts do not
> (or should not) drive the identity of characters for *scripts* per se.
> And edge cases for making mixed script collation work should not drive
> such decisions, either.
>
> --Ken

Anyway, that's what ScriptExtensions.txt is for.

-Van
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