Unclear text in the UBA (UAX#9) of Unicode 6.3

Asmus Freytag asmusf at ix.netcom.com
Thu Apr 24 11:12:53 CDT 2014


On 4/24/2014 7:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This is _*incorrect*_, see the text in blue/bold in the definition
> >copied below.
> >The second bullet in item 3 of the second second-level bullet of the
> >third top-level bullet of BD16 clearly says that all elements that are
> >above the matched element are popped together with it.

Isn't is lovely how difficult it is to cite any of the steps of that 
algorithmic definition?

There are levels of nested bullets, with some numbers about halfway down 
the hierarchy.

Another brick in the wall of proving that BD16 is just very poorly 
written and presented.

A./
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