Re: Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

2016-06-12 Thread Asmus Freytag (c)
Just a note: for any living(!) language, it is important that Unicode not mix scripts, but instead disunify characters based on script. The reason for that is that in important implementations, such as URLs (domain names) there are restrictions that prevent

Re: compatibility features (was: Mende Kikakui Number 10)

2016-06-12 Thread Asmus Freytag (c)
On 6/11/2016 8:25 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: «If you add a [compatibility] feature to match behavior > [found] somewhere else [not in the Unicode standard], > it rarely pays to make that perform "better", because > it just means it's now different and no longer matches > [the behavior to which

9.0.0 segmentation and line breaks on the empty string

2016-06-12 Thread Daniel Bünzli
Hello, I notice that in 9.0.0, UAX29 segmentations no longer report boundaries on the empty string while UAX14 still does report a hard line break on it. Is this intended ? and what is the rationale behind these changes and non-changes ? While I think that the proposed UAX29 is a better

Scheduling Public Reviews (was: Re: Mende Kikakui Number 10)

2016-06-12 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:25:17 +1000, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > Marcel, it isn't so much that the conversation was exhausted, rather that > the original question has been sufficienlty answered. I understand the difference now. Anyway I didnʼt consider the issue as settled. More, the Mende