David Goldssmith wrote;
Yes, and that's the problem of the unregulated combinations of
combining characters of ISO10646/UNICODE.
Sigh.
I've noticed several additional digs at Unicode in recent posts, and at
this point I'm not going to respond to them any more. I suggest anyone with
doubts about Unicode pick up a copy of "The Unicode Standard", or get
information from ftp.unicode.org, and make up their own mind about whether
combinations of combining characters are unregulated or whether any of the
other varieties of evil ascribed to Unicode are true.
Later, he wrote;
At 10:40 PM 11/17/94, Masataka Ohta wrote:
Yes. ISO10646/UNICODE is utterly ridiculous in several ways including
your point. I've heard that even the infamous ISO is modifying it to
bound the allowable repertoiries of combining characters.
The project editor for ISO/IEC 10646-1 WG2, who happens to be my manager,
says that no such modifications are being contemplated. If you wish to
contradict this I hope you can cite a more authoritative source.
Self contradiction aleart.
Is cominations of combining characters unregulated or not?
Masataka Ohta