RE: [UAX29] i18n comment 6: Indic scripts or Tamil?

With additional clarity elsewhere in the text and the small edit here, I'd
say this is Fixed.

RI

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Richard Ishida
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> Sent: 07 March 2008 11:33
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> Subject: [UAX29] i18n comment 6: Indic scripts or Tamil?
> 
> 
> Comment from the i18n review of:
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/tr29-12.html
> 
> Comment 6
> At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0801-uax29/
> Editorial/substantive: E/S?
> Tracked by: RI
> 
> Location in reviewed document:
> 
> 3 [http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/tr29-
> 12.html#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries]
> 
> Comment:
> 'Indic scripts such as Tamil'
>  is ambiguous.
> 
> 
> We were expecting to read something like 'Indic scripts, such as the Tamil
> we saw earlier' or 'most Indic scripts'.
> 
> 
> On the other hand, this may be intentional because the XDGCs are intended
> to only address the needs of a simpler Indic script like Tamil that
> doesn't generally use conjunct forms (so the statement should say
> something more like "the set of Indic scripts that are like Tamil").
> 
> 
> If this latter interpretation is true, a. there needs to be a clearer
> statement about the relevance of XDGCs to Indic and South-East Asian
> scripts in general, and b. we think the document is definitely setting its
> sights too low.
> 
>

Received on Friday, 7 March 2008 14:13:20 UTC