Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 06:23:43 CST

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    Quoting "Andrew West" <andrewcwest@gmail.com>:

    > 2008/11/17 <vunzndi@vfemail.net>:
    >>
    >>>> The combinations of base character and combining diacritic(s) supported
    >>>> is a decision of the font developers. No font will support all theoretical
    >>>> combinations, maybe ot even most. What they will try to do is add the
    >>>> combinations that fullfill the purpose fo the font.
    >>>
    >>> There is no guidance or help for font developers. So they just make what's
    >>> in the code charts.
    >>>
    >>
    >> Which of course begs the question where such guidance should be kept .
    >
    > <http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamedSequences.txt>
    >

    A good idea however with only 104 named sequences the list seems
    somewhat limited.

    Regards
    John

    > Andrew
    >
    >



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