Unicode was created for a commercial reason, particularly for the benefit of its directors. The idea of Plain Text is not anything practical but was used as a means of attracting supporters, who for the most part hadn't had any experience with computers.
The following line is Unicode text: මේ අකුරු ලියා ඇත්තේ යුනිකෝඩ් අකුරෙනි. I bet most of you see it as a row of Character-not-found glyph. Some would see it in the non-Latin script, but yet separated into meaningless components that go to make letters. So, the headache you are talking about within Latin becomes a tumor that makes you insane when outside the SBCS. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:37 AM, QSJN 4 UKR <[email protected]> wrote: > Why did the Unicode Consortium think that combination of one base > character and few combining is possible, and combination of few base > characters with one combining character is not? > E.g. U+0483 "tilda" has to cover a number. Whole number! Not one > figure!! What for have we it, if we can't use it right way? > Half combining marks are about decision... And what if we deal not > with simple horizontal line? what if we need the same "tilda" above > number or "titlo" above abbreviation? Text with numbers and > abbreviations is not a plane text? > Idea (bad as I think, but there is many other stupid things in > Unicode): add some new combining characters of new ccc = word-above, > word-below, word-over (ZWS works as word separator if needed). > >
