Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for exceptional characters)

[Martin Duerst]

At 03:11 06/12/19, Michael Everson wrote:
>At 09:45 -0800 2006-12-18, Mark Davis wrote:
>>I don't think it is necessary. If mixtures of scripts are not displayed (eg the user-agent flags them as discussed before), then they are not a problem. If mixtures of scripts *are* allowed, then there are so many other problems (eg with Cyrillic) that these pale in comparison.
>
>I do not understand why (apart from Japanese and Korean) the possibility of mixing scripts is still being discussed as though it were necessary. DON'T mix Syllabics with other scripts, and be done.

I don't understand why some people are implying that any script
mixtures are bad. Most script combinations, assuming moderately
reasonable fonts for display, are not really an issue. We know
that there are some that really can hurt, but we shouldn't
generalize too quickly.

Regards,    Martin.



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