Re: Mongolian NNBSP [I18N-ACTION-458]

On 31.07.2015 13:46, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:23:51 +0100
> Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 31 July 2015 at 08:57, Richard Wordingham
>> <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 08:19:15 +0100
>>> Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 1. Consensus to change the wordbreak property of U+202F to
>>>>> ExtendNumLet and sentence break of U+202F to Other
>>> Why on earth ExtendNumLet and not MidLetter or MidNumLet?
>> There is a word break between MidLetter or MidNumLet and ALetter
>> (which Mongolian letters are), whereas there is no word break between
>> ExtendNumLet and ALetter.
>>
>> http://www.unicode.org/Public/8.0.0/ucd/auxiliary/WordBreakTest.html
> This would be horribly faulty logic, but it may be the reasoning that
> was applied.
>
> So far as I am aware, Mongolian words do not start with NNBSP.
Correct.
> The relevant sequence is Aletter NNBSP Aletter, for which see
> Examples 6 to 9 in the referenced link.  The first example is the
> *three* characters "c.d", in which by the rules there is no word break.
Not entirely correct. The possible sequences are:
Aletter NNBSP Aletter, FVS1 NNBSP Aletter, FVS2 NNBSP Aletter, FVS3 
NNBSP Aletter, Numeric NNBSP Aletter, ...

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