RE: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Nov 22 2008 - 21:31:00 CST

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    That is *not* the intended purpose for namedsequences.txt. I don't think it would be a good idea to start filling it with combining mark sequences -- there'd be no end to that.

    Peter

    -----Original Message-----
    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Andrew West
    Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:34 AM
    To: unicode Unicode Discussion
    Subject: Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

    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>

    Andrew

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