Re: conjoining Jamo (was: GNU Emacs Unicode support)

[Otfried Cheong <otfried@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible writes:

 > > In general, we can say that each syllable will have either CV
 > > or CVF shape (CVF = consonant-vowel-final).  In particular, each
 > > syllable will have one C.  Under this assumption, if you assign
 > > column-width two to C and zero to V and F, the total width of any Jamo
 > > sequence will be computed correctly.
 > 
 > This makes a lot of sense. Could you ask on unicode.org why they didn't
 > follow your idea in PropList.txt?

I guess I didn't express this clearly.  This is simply not what the
composing algorithm (section 3-10 in The Unicode Standard 2.0) does.
It can, for instance, compose syllables without a consonant.  If you
made V and F non-spacing, you'd get a spacing syllable out of two
non-spacing elements.  The composing algorithm also distinguishes
between vowels and finals, and the order vowel-final is significant.

Otfried


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