Asmus Freytag scripsit:
> Yes and no. As I wrote, we did consider combining marks as a means to avoid
> combinatorics (but note that they are very different from the stateful
> controls in your suggestion!) but felt that using that mechanism to affect
> the style of a letter was inappropriate.
I believe that you have misinterpreted Jonathan's suggestion.
His PRESENTATION SUGGESTION characters have combining-mark semantics,
affecting only the preceding character, as the integration example
demonstrates. This is independent of the GROUP suggestion.
> And for that very reason your controls would clash with markup languages
> wishing to use Unicode as the character encoding.
I think this is a weak point. The W3C character model draft is already
talking about prohibiting the U+206? codes within W3C-blessed text.
Nothing requires fancy text to use *all* the Unicode characters,
especially not the Cf ones.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
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