--- Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I add that this is a good way of displaying a combining mark that has no > base character, i.e. one occurring at the begin of a line or paragraph. > > However, I totally agree with Kent that this funny rendering is *not* a > requirement of the Unicode standard, as Keyur Shroff seems to suggest. It > is just an example of many "several methods [that] are available to deal > with" strange sequences.
A sequence should not be treated as "strange" sequence if it has been written intentionally. It may have some contextual meaning. > > > Any combining characters can be placed on any base characters without > > there being any dotted circles displayed. Not only that, but it is also desirable. How can one write a vowel matra both with and without dotted circle in a single document if Unicode recommends to place it only on top of space character? Matra with dotted circle is sometimes useful as in the case of printing/explaining Unicode standard. A user may want to hide dotted circle in the same document in order to explain the actual shape of the matra character, i.e., without dotted circle. Both kind of rendering behaviour is possible. There should be some mechanism either to turn on or off dotted circle depending on the default behaviour. Also, what is good or bad is also subjective. It may also vary from one script to another. - Keyur __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
