Re: RE: filename and normalization (was gcc identifiers)

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:45:36PM -0600, starner@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >For that reason, I dont like form D at all. I wonder how much space
> >it would take to represent every possible Jamo-combination, then just
> >do away with combining characters alltogether...
> 
> Besides Korean, Arabic and Hebrew both need combining characters, as do
> many, many minor languages (Lakota, Navaho, Sioux, etc.) You're looking
> at least a few hundred characters there.
> 
> But that's not your big problem. Both phonetic alphabets (IPA, UPA 
> and dictionary phonetic systems, among others) and mathematics make 
> liberal use of combining marks. To replace thoses, you'll basically 
> need to encode the cross of 30+ combining marks times 31+ combining 
> marks times 1200 Latin, Greek and mathematical characters. Be prepared
> to add more, as requests will come pouring in for three or four combining
> marks on a character, or weird combinations under a double combining mark.

Yes, I think combining characters are good for those purposes,
but not for real letters, that are used in real languages.
I think this is how it was thought of in ISO 10646 when the
standard was approved.

Kind regards
keld
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