On 29 August 2014 08:23, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> John C Klensin scripsit:
>
>
> > -- established Unicode conventions by combining existing
> > and standardized Unicode points using conventions (and
> > perhaps special font support) about how those sequences
> > are interpreted that are not part of the Unicode
> > Standard.
>
> This is also a problem; generally it's about using visual rather than
> logical order of combining characters.
>
This scenario isn't just restricted to visual vs logical order, it may
involve reassigning or changing code points, suing them in different ways
from Unicode as part of a visual encoding, essentially an overlay of a
legacy encoding using a glyph based encoding (rather than a character based
encoding) onto an existing Unicode block.
>
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