From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sun Nov 16 2008 - 01:07:37 CST
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela at cs dot tut dot fi> wrote:
> I think it is best to explain realistically that characters with
> diacritic marks will not be added to Unicode as separately encoded,
> i.e. as code points, as a matter of policy. You can say this in
> different formulations and tones, of course. There’s no point in
> getting into long arguments.
In fairness, I can't fault Karl for wanting to provide a newcomer with a
reasoned explanation for the policy, especially if the results are
unsatisfactory with many fonts and rendering engines (they are with
mine*).
Newcomers hate it when we tell them, "That's just the way it is.
Unicode won't change. Deal with it."
-- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ *Windows XP SP 3; Uniscribe version 1.0420.2600.5512; default Web font = Georgia, dated 2004-08-04.
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