Re: Text Editors and Canonical Equivalence (was Coloured diacritics)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 11:25:17 EST

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    Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:

    >>> And what, I find myself wondering, does "nearly infinite" mean?
    >>
    >> It means "finite".
    >
    > Except in the original context it should have meant "infinite", as
    > there is actually an infinite number of potential default grapheme
    > clusters.

    How can that be, if there is a finite number of characters that can be
    part of a cluster, and a (presumably) finite upper bound on the number
    of characters in a cluster?

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
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