- From: <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:20:05 +0000
- To: public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org
On 16/11/2015 12:19, Andrew West wrote: > Dear Greg, > > I think that you are correct that the current properties for baludas > (1885/6) do not allow them to be correctly rendered on the right side of > a word as shown in the examples I posted previously > (http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Mongolian/TWYT_130.jpg). Logically, the > baluda is an "other letter", but the layout model for Mongolian means > that it has to be treated as a non-spacing mark to be positioned correctly. > > I therefore tentatively agree that we should propose changing the > general category of U+1885 and U+1886 from Lo (other letter) to Mn > (non-spacing mark), with a canonical combining class of 226 (positioned > on the right), a bidi class of NSM (non-spacing mark), and a line break > property of CM (attached characters and combining marks). > > Incidentally, the corresponding Tibetan character, U+0F85 TIBETAN MARK > PALUTA, has a general category of Po (other punctuation), which is > surely incorrect, and something I may separately raise with the UTC. > > Double incidentally, there may be a need to propose encoding a single > and triple circular paluta mark for use with Han characters. hi Andrew, could you point me to somewhere that describes what 1885/6 are used for and how? I wondered whether the right-side placement might be an annotation, using a mechanism such as ruby, rather than a diacritic? That's probably not correct, i just wanted to check. My problem is that i don't really understand why or how the characters are being used. cheers, ri
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