Re: Regarding canonical combing class value for U+0F76 and similar characters (Unicode 6.2.0)

From: Matt Ma <matt.ma.umail_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:54:05 -0700

Thanks all for the clarification and discussion. I am clear of the question
now, though these characters complicate the decomposition a bit.

Best regards,
Matt

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Christopher Fynn <chris.fynn_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On 18/05/2013, Matt Ma <matt.ma.umail_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > U+0F76 is a non-spacing combing mark (Mn) but its combing class value is
> > defined as 0. Is this expected? The specialty of the character is that it
> > is a composition of two combining marks, U+0FB2 and U+0F80.
>
> > Same question goes for U+0F73, U+0F75, U+0F77, U+0F78, and U+0F79.
>
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Matt
>
> Notice. several of these characters are marked "use of this character
> is discouraged" (they probably all should be) It is generally better
> to use the (decomposed) component characters instead because that is
> the way they should collate in a normal Tibetan dictionary. An
> ordinary Tibetan user will also spell out words containing these
> characters as if these are two or three seperate characters.
>
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