Re: [i18n-activity] When should UAOA be used?

Here is the text of the Unicode issue i raised, using the Unicode feedback mechanism. There is no way to see that feedback on the Unicode site at the moment:

> I'm sending this on behalf of the W3C i18n WG. It relates to UTR#53.
> 
> I'm hearing through other channels that the algorithm described is intended to just indicate how characters should be temporarily reordered prior to rendering, rather than describe the order in which code points should be stored. Since most fonts generally produce the behaviour described anyway, it presumably therefore amounts to documenting expectations in terms of font behaviour, rather than specifying a new form of normalisation.
> 
> It's not at all clear from the document that that is the case, however, which has caused the W3C WG significant alarm (and wasted discussion cycles). Please update the document to make this clearer. We will hold back the other comments we currently have queued up to send until we can re-evaluate them in the light of the changes to the document.
> 
> Btw, the understanding of the intended use of UAOA is not helped by the way the document mentions canonically equivalent character sequences, nor by the vague descriptions of when CGJ should be used.

-- 
GitHub Notification of comment by r12a
Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/492#issuecomment-334726159 using your GitHub account

Received on Friday, 6 October 2017 11:10:32 UTC