RE: Precomposed Ethiopic (Was: Precomposed Tibetan)

2002-12-18 Thread Marco Cimarosti
John Hudson wrote: The Ethiopic script is *not* made up of sub-syllabic units: the syllable is the minimum unit of writing. The same is true to Yi and the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. The fact that Ethiopic has recently been input phonetically should not lead to confusion about the

RE: Precomposed Ethiopic (Was: Precomposed Tibetan)

2002-12-18 Thread Carl W. Brown
Marco, I agree. I did some basic design work on an Ethiopian system and it was decided to follow the same implementation system as Thai. We don't encode every possible Thai glyph. We felt that if it were ever Unicode encoded we needed to use the decomposed characters rather than decomposing