Re: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence

From: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 01:15:37 CDT

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    Asmus Freytag scripsit:

    > John, you proposed the initial set. Do you have any suggestion here?

    My original submission had only the single-character mappings, not the
    character pair mappings, which are just the result of decomposing the
    precomposed set and don't IMHO make much sense: they are too selective.

    The list predates TR#30; I developed it for the purpose of
    making NFC Latin text minimally legible on an old ASCII-only
    printer. (I simply changed the filtering regex from "LATIN" to
    "LATIN|GREEK|CYRILLIC|HEBREW".) It was not intended to cope with
    partially or fully decomposed text.

    I agree that in the TR#30 context, the Right Thing is to remove the
    character pair mappings altogether, and all of the single-character
    mappings that have canonical decompositions.

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