From: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)
Date: Sat Mar 27 2004 - 20:47:30 EST
Asmus Freytag scripsit:
> This can be tricky esp,. when the user doesn't know a VS is present
> and the font used to view the data doesn't have an alternate glyph.
Well, surely it'll turn into the black blob, or the reversed question
mark, or whatever. It won't just vanish, except in a font which explicitly
makes it vanish, and such a font ought to have the mandatory ligatures too.
> Should comparison, by default, ignore VS?
No, I think not. Of course proper collation is a different matter.
What does the collation standard say to do with unassigned codepoints
anyhow?
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