Unicode organization is still anti-Serbian and anti-Macedonian

Richard Wordingham richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com
Sun Feb 16 16:12:23 CST 2014


On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:44:55 +0100
Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> 2014-02-15 19:25 GMT+01:00 Richard Wordingham <
> richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com>:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:37:19 -0800
> > Крушевљанин <Perka at muchomail.com> wrote:Should these combinations
> > be well known?  They're not listed in the
> > CLDR exemplar characters for Serbian.
> >
> > As for input, I would suggest that the solution for the simpler
> > keyboarding techniques is to enter them as base character and then
> > dead key.

> There's another inut method where you can press a key for the
> diacritic after a base letter: this key is treated in isolation and
> immediately generates the combining diacritic, independantly of the
> characters pressed before.

Sorry, this is what I meant.  I should have written 'diacritic',
not 'dead key'.

> But such input method will not warranty the NFC form,

Which is an argument for text editors to have normalisation functions,
like the emacs ucs-normalize-NFC-region command.

> and cand
> produce broken sequences (in some cases the diacritic may be
> invisible in the generated text).

Something many users of the Thai script currently have to live
with.

Richard.



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