Re: Fixed position combining classes (Was: Combining class for Thaicharacters)

2002-06-04 Thread Peter_Constable
On 06/04/2002 05:13:09 AM Peter_Constable wrote: >I understand. I'm not arguing at this point that the combining classes >should be changed (though I would were it a possibility) -- if you look at >my earlier post in this thread, you'll see that I explained to Khun Samphan >that this is not a po

Re: Fixed position combining classes (Was: Combining class for Thaicharacters)

2002-06-04 Thread Peter_Constable
On 06/03/2002 05:56:38 PM Kenneth Whistler wrote: >Peter, >The problem, of course, is that not all eventualities could be >foreseen at the time the decisions had to be made -- when normalization >and Unicode 3.0 were looming... >So hindsight is 20/20. But at the time, the editors and participa

Re: Fixed position combining classes (Was: Combining class for Thaicharacters)

2002-06-03 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Peter, > On 06/02/2002 05:40:05 AM Samphan Raruenrom wrote: > > >> My opinion is that they should have been simplified, but that setting > the > >> bulk of them to 0 was a mistake and creates some significant problems > >> (which go a step beyond the questions you raise here). > > > >Can you ela

Re: Fixed position combining classes (Was: Combining class for Thaicharacters)

2002-06-03 Thread Peter_Constable
On 06/02/2002 05:40:05 AM Samphan Raruenrom wrote: >> My opinion is that they should have been simplified, but that setting the >> bulk of them to 0 was a mistake and creates some significant problems >> (which go a step beyond the questions you raise here). > >Can you elaborate on this? Given