From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 12:34:26 EST
On 26/11/2003 07:43, jon@hackcraft.net wrote:
> ...
>
>In all I would rather ban all defective sequences, by enforcing the W3C
>character model. I dont' see much point for them. The only possible reason I
>can think of right now is to allow description of the character itself, though
>that would possibly best be done through an element that represents the concept
>of a Unicode character along the lines of <character codepoint="824" />.
>
>
Formally, as we discovered recently on this list, it is necessary to use
defective combining sequences to write some Khmer words correctly as
defined in TUS 4.0 p.282; for a sequence of combining characters
following ZWNJ is a defective combining sequence.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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