Andrew West <andrewcwest at gmail dot com> wrote:

>> In terms of what Suzanne was looking for, the example was probably
>> sufficient, because I got the impression she was interested in the
>> ability of her system to display precomposed letters vs. base letters
>> with combining marks. Singleton decompositions don't change that.
>
> Ah, but in this case they do, because U+03AC canononically decomposes
> to <03B1 0301>. The result is that your "decomposed" text is still a
> mixture of composed and decomposed Greek characters (18% of the text
> is undecomposed), whereas if subject to NFD normalization, *all*
> characters would be fully decomposed into either base characters or
> combining characters.

You are right again. You have out-Unicoded me. :-)

Since this is getting farther off-topic for Qalam, I'll leave it at
this.

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Doug Ewell
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