- From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 20:39:26 +0000
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> > 2. In section 1.3, after the example: > > "Within this specification, the ambiguous term character is used > > as a friendlier synonym for grapheme cluster. See Characters and > > Properties for how to determine the Unicode properties of a > > character." > > "A letter for the purpose of this specification is a character > > belonging to one of the Letter or Number general categories in > > Unicode. [UAX44]" > > If I replace 'character' in the second paragraph with 'grapheme > > cluster', I am not sure I get a reasonable answer. For instance, > > is U+0067 + U+0308 a letter? I don't think U+0308 is, does that > > disqualify the whole cluster? Or is this a different use of the > > term character? Does Unicode define such clusters as belonging > > to all the groups all the code points belong to? > > Ah, that's referring to some text that was recently removed from > Writing Modes. Here's the old version: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-writing-modes-20121115/#character-properties > > # For the purposes of CSS Writing Modes, the properties of a > # grapheme cluster are given by its base character—except [...] > > I'll have to restore that text, will follow-up on that with a link… Fixed. /koji
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