Re: Major Defect in Combining Classes of Tibetan Vowels

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 12:14:04 EDT

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    >this was the case

    Someone might misread your statement. We did not change the combining
    classes for Hebrew.

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
    To: <unicode@unicode.org>; "Andrew C. West"
    <andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu>
    Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 08:55
    Subject: Re: Major Defect in Combining Classes of Tibetan Vowels

    > Let me add that this was the case recently for Hebrew (to mention on
    > example). So it is certainly not impossible.
    >
    > But we have enough real work to do that we should do our best to
    veer from
    > the theoretical. :-)
    >
    > MichKa
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
    > To: <unicode@unicode.org>; "Andrew C. West"
    > <andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu>
    > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:11 AM
    > Subject: Re: Major Defect in Combining Classes of Tibetan Vowels
    >
    >
    > > From: "Andrew C. West" <andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu>
    > >
    > > > What I'm suggesting is that although "cui" <0F45, 0F74, 0F72>
    and "ciu"
    > > <0F45,
    > > > 0F72, 0F74> should be rendered identically, the logical ordering
    of the
    > > > codepoints representing the vowels may represent lexical
    differences
    > that
    > > would
    > > > be lost during the process of normalisation.
    > >
    > > Do you (or does anyone) have an actual example where this is the
    case? It
    > > may well be true but until someone has a proof there is not really
    an
    > > indication of a specific problem for the UTC to address.
    > >
    > > The current discussion is like arguing about a color that none of
    the
    > > participants have ever seen.
    > >
    > > MichKa
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >
    >



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