Thank you to Doug and to Asmus for replying.
Originally I was thinking of the format simply being so as to help to level the
infrastructural ground as between a PUA (Private Use Area) application using
left-to-right characters and a PUA application using right-to-left characters.
However,
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com
wrote:
Suppose that a a special researcher's edition of a wordprocessing
application or a desktop publishing application at start up looks in a
specified directory for a file with the following file name.
pua_major.txt
On 8/23/2011 7:22 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
Of all applications, a word processor or DTP application would want to
know more about the properties of characters than just whether they are
RTL. Line breaking, word breaking, and case mapping come to mind.
I would think the format used by standard UCD
Asmus Freytag asmusf at ix dot netcom dot com wrote:
The right answer would follow the XML format of the UCD.
Question: Since the ucdxml formats became available, has any consensus
emerged as to whether the flat or grouped formats are preferred?
Obviously they both contain the same data, but
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