Re: [svgwg] Character counting in text 'x', 'y', 'dx', 'dy', and 'rotate' attributes.

Just to clarify, the proposal I'm backing here is:

- Use code points for counting, because they are stable and pairing must remain stable. This gives us both forwards and backwards compatibility (except for surrogate pairs, which would not be backwards-compatible).
- UAs (may/must?) ignore coordinates associated with combining characters (i.e. not the base character) in any typographic character unit.

Additionally, I would suggest that SVG add a no-op symbol to the coordinate list syntax, which would assign the character a position relative to the previous character (as dictated by the font), so that the author doesn't have to give a coordinate for each codepoint.

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