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Re: Letter ::= BaseChar CombiningChar* | Ideographic /* ??? */

From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:37:43 -0800
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19981117190446.0104cc54@pop.intergate.bc.ca>
To: "Jerzy Miernik" <Jerzy.Miernik.jerzy@nt.com>, "'xml-editor@w3.org'" <xml-editor@w3.org> 
At 07:06 AM 11/16/98 -0500, Jerzy Miernik wrote:
> There is a statement that a base character can be "possibly followed by one
>or more
> combining characters", in the second to the last paragraph on page 3. Also,
>there is 
> a statement that "these classes combine to form the class of letters", in
>the first 
> paragraph of Annex B. The two statements are not supported by the
>production 84.

On first read, I believe that you are right, that the productions are
OK but the text is simply wrong.  This is gone into the queue for
the forthcoming editorial revision. -Tim Bray
Received on Wednesday, 18 November 1998 09:33:46 UTC

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