Re: "Difficult Characters" draft

On 4 May 1997, Michael Kung <MKUNG.US.ORACLE.COM> wrote:

> How about the BIDI support?  Should we allow the BIDI mark?

There are several BIDI marks. Their problem is that they don't
get transcribed well on paper :-(.

> How about 
> non-spacing mark? 

Some nonspacing marks will have to be allowed in some contexts.
An example is the ZWNJ (zero width non-joiner), which is needed
for writing Persian, and which works in this context. Others
have to be examined carefully, but disallowed or strongly
discouraged in most cases.


Regards,	Martin.

Received on Monday, 5 May 1997 05:27:55 UTC