Re: ZWJ+ZWNJ+ZWJ (Was: ZWJ and Turkish)

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 09:50:11 EDT


In a message dated 2001-10-11 10:50:09 Pacific Daylight Time, tiro@tiro.com
writes:

> Why does Roozbeh think this is 'the worst thing in Unicode'?

Probably because it seems so ugly and hackish: 3 formatting characters
required to provide shaping information for 2 graphic characters. "Turn
joining on; no, wait, turn it off; no, no, turn it on again." I'm not saying
there's a better way, though.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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