Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

On Oct 30, 2007, at 6:32 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote:

> In other words, the IDS are not creating larger grapheme clusters,  
> each IDC
> is its own grapheme cluster, self-delimited and completely  
> independent from
> the surrounding.
>

Implementations are allowed to do this if they choose.  The current  
language in the standard was chosen precisely to allow this kind of  
remote possibility.

> You could even use the encoded IDC for something else than Han (for  
> example
> between Latin characters, may be needed for notation purposes, where  
> some
> radicals are replaced by placeholder variables).
>

Philippe, this is explicitly disallowed.  Please read the standard  
before commenting on it.
>

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John H. Jenkins
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