Kobayashi wrote:
I have pointed this thread to Asmus Freytag who is a author of UAX#14.
Follwings are reply from him, I copied them with the permission
from Freytag.
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(Freytag until the end of body of this mail:)
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For background, Annex 14 is very permissive, implicitly allowing line
breaks wherever they are not explicitly disallowed and does not, for
example, disallow breaks following closing punctuation, allowing for
example, this break:
"e.
g., a thing"
That is, Annex 14 allows this break, even though it would be wrong in any
Western language I'm familiar with.
However, the statement is incorrect. UAX#14 allows breaks after closing
punctuation, but not if it precedes alphabetic characters.
That's good to know.
However, I will comment that in my reasonably close (but somewhat
late-night) reading of Annex 14, I did not see this--the way the rules
are defined makes it pretty difficult to decode the rules without a
really close reading--and I'm a person whose spent most of the last 10
years writing and decoding complex standards.
I know that standards writers are always strapped for resources and that
these sorts of annexes always get a lower priority, but it would be
helpful if this annex could be made a little clearer, I think. At a
minimum, a bit more discussion of the implications of the rules might be
helpful.
Cheers,
Eliot
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W. Eliot Kimber
ISOGEN International, LLC
eliot(_at_)isogen(_dot_)com
www.isogen.com
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