Re: Tanween variants and Unicode

["Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>]

Here is Unicode Technical Standard #18 written by Mark Davis himself that gives clues to what Unicode means by "characters":

http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/
Look for:

"One or more Unicode characters may make up what the user thinks of as a character. To avoid ambiguity with the computer use of the term character, this is called a grapheme cluster. For example, "G" + acute-accent is a grapheme cluster: it is thought of as a single character by users, yet is actually represented by two Unicode characters."

Regards,
Mete



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>
Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date:  Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:23:49 -0700

>From: "Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>
>>This is our interpretation of Unicode's mission statement that "The Unicode Standard encodes characters". What do you suggest that Unicode encodes?
>
>Sorry, I meant to say:
>
>This is our interpretation of Unicode's mission statement that "The Unicode Standard encodes characters" in the case of Arabic.
>
>Regards,
>Mete
>
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>Mete Kural
>Touchtone Corporation
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