Re: Tanween variants and Unicode

[Gregg Reynolds <gar at arabink dot com>]

Mete Kural wrote:
> 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


Hi Mete,

Just wanted to let you know that I'm pretty booked for the next few 
days, but will respond.  Personally, I find this topic of "what is a 
character" quite fascinating, so I warn you that if I can't persuade you 
I may bore you to death.  ;)

-gregg