From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 05:37:43 CDT
In <200205281807.TAA11135@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>However, there is a less dangerous solution which I have adopted for
>now, and that is simply to rename those syntax rules so that it is
>clear they derive from the Normalization requirements, and to add an
>explanatory note. So I propose to rename
> combiner-base as glyph-starter
> combiner-mark as glyph-marker
> combiner-ASCII as ASCII-starter
> combiner-extended as extended-starter
I should have added that the word "starter" is used in the Unicode
Standard (and in particular in TR 15) for the object I now propose to call
a "glyph-starter" (except that we restrict it further by excluding certain
categories such as punctuation and whitespace).
>and to leave the syntax rules otherwise as they stand.
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