Re: APL Under-bar Characters

From: Tom Gewecke <tom_at_bluesky.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:45:01 -0400

On Aug 18, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:

>
> It is NOT necessary for a combining sequence to be assigned a name,
> either by the Unicode Technical Committee or by anyone else, in order to
> use it. Note that of the two sequences:
>
> A̱ <0041, 0331>
> A̲ <0041, 0332>
>
> neither sequence is listed in NamedSequences.txt, yet I can use them
> without limitation in this email and in plain text generally.

I guess the question is whether having a named sequence would somehow make it easier for the gnu apl folks to add something to their system so that their string length function sees such a sequence as having a length of "1"?
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