Zinh - Code for inherited script

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What is the point of having it at all?
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-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Randy Presuhn
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:30 PM
To: ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: Re: Zinh - Code for inherited script

Hi -

> From: "John Cowan" <cowan at ccil.org>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>
> Cc: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Zinh - Code for inherited script
...
> It's a dummy script used to label Unicode combining marks, which "inherit"
> their script property from the base character they are combined with.
> For example, COMBINING ACUTE has a script property of Zinh: when it
> follows an Latin A, its effective script is Latn, but when it follows
> a Cyrillic A, its effective script is Cyrl.

Thanks for the clear explanation.

> It's useless for tagging documents.

I propose we add a comment saying just that.

Randy

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