Re: [I18ndir] [art] Modern Network Unicode

[Asmus Freytag <[e-mail]>]

On 7/10/2019 12:09 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
> For the record, I do have one other concern.  The examples above
> use extended Latin script.  Because of its NVT origins, much of
> 5198 makes assumptions about that script or scripts closely
> related to it.  If you are doing something for this century and
> beyond, you should really think carefully about the implications
> of scripts that are very different.

There are a few scripts where un-normalized text is "preferred" by the 
user community over NFC. In some cases, the most natural ordering of 
combining marks does not match NFC's canonical ordering. I other cases, 
NFC does not compose some sequences while local user communities 
strongly prefer the precomposed code points (e.g. Bengali).

Those scripts would be an exception to John's statement: " NFC is also a 
close approximation to what any sensible terminal driver or IME is going 
to produce natively from a plausible keyboard layout for the relevant 
script", a statement that otherwise holds well.

A./