Re: Difference between ‘combining characters’ and ‘grapheme extenders’?

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:42:01 +0100 Mathias Bynens wrote: > What is the difference between ‘combining > characters’ (http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html) and > ‘grapheme > extenders’ (http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/#Grapheme_Extend) in > Unicode? > > They seem to do the same thing,

Banjo glyph proposal--open discussion

2014-02-20 Thread Tyler Cipriani
I'm proposing adding a single UCS character to further the goal of set completeness for the set of glyphs represented on the SMP block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs: 'BANJO' (proposed glyph U+1F3DB) My current proposal is available at: https://github.com/thcipriani/unicode-banjo/blob/mast

Re: Difference between 'combining characters' and 'grapheme extenders'?

2014-02-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
Many grapheme extenders are not "combining characters". Combining characters are classified this way for legacy reasons (the very weak "general category" property) and this property is normatively stabilized. As well most combining characters have a non-zero combining class and they are stabilized

Difference between ‘combining characters’ and ‘grapheme extenders’?

2014-02-20 Thread Mathias Bynens
What is the difference between ‘combining characters’ (http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html) and ‘grapheme extenders’ (http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/#Grapheme_Extend) in Unicode? They seem to do the same thing, as far as I can tell – although the set of grapheme extenders is larg