Re: Coloured diacritics (Was: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup)

[Peter Kirk]

On 08/12/2003 08:37, Doug Ewell wrote:

Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:

 

I may have missed or misunderstood the details, but it has been
clearly stated here in the last few days that (a) there are more
than 11,000 redundant Korean characters in the BMP, and (b) many
precomposed Korean characters lack canonical or even compatibility
decompositions which would be desirable.
   

Jungshik has been saying for years now that (a) the 11,172 precomposed
syllables are redundant, since they can all be easily decomposed into
jamos.  He also said recently that (b) the jamos that represent doubled
sounds or "letter clusters" had compatibility equivalences in Unicode
2.0, but these were subsequently removed, and that this too was a
mistake.
So there are (a) 11000+ redundant Korean characters, and there are (b)
Korean characters without decompositions.  But there are not (a à b)
"11000+ redundant Korean characters without decompositions."
 

Thank you for the correction.

Do the 11,172 precomposed syllables actually have canonical or 
compatibility decompositions? Are they composition exclusions?

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