Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote on 06/25/2003 08:31:41 PM:
> I was going to suggest something very similar, a ZW-pseudo-consonant of
some
> kind, which would force each vowel to be associated with one consonant.
An invisible *consonant* doesn't make sense because the problem involves
more than just multiple written vowels on one consonant; in fact, that is
a small portion of the general problem. If we want such a character, it
would notionally be a zero-width-canonical-ordering-inhibiter, and nothing
more.
And I don't particular want to think about what happens when people start
sticking this thing into sequences other than Biblical Hebrew ("in
unicode, any sequence is legal").
> General question: when does canonical reordering take place? At input
time,
> at rendering time, at another time?
For the purpose for which canonical ordering was intended, it occurs when
comparing two strings for "equality" or ordering. In practice, it can
occur at *any* time, including transmission (when it is no longer under
the control of the author). Some protocols, and notably W3C protocols,
require that data be canonically ordered, and recommend that this happen
at the earliest point possible, e.g. at input time.
- Peter
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