On Mon, 30 May 2011 10:48:07 -0400, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> Arabic ligatures, accented letters (as opposed to letters plus accent
> characters) and Hangul syllables are hated compromises to allow the use
> of limited rendering technologies

That's what I had thought. I was wrong about "Unicode being slow to
realize...".

> and such compound characters are no longer added. Thus, although new
> Arabic letters are added from time to time, new 'presentation forms' are
> not.

Richard, thank you for setting me straight. Amateurs can make significant
misjudgments.
I really appreciate being on a list that includes serious, respected
professionals.

Best regards,

--
Nicholas Bodley _.=|*|=._ Waltham, Mass.
Sarah's followers: Palindrones. They don't really
know which way they're facing.