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UNICODE-MARC  April 2006

UNICODE-MARC April 2006

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Charles Riley <[log in to unmask]>

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I've got a few misgivings about the proposal to forbid nearly all formatting
characters, as stated in point 3c from Joan's list, or Appendix C.4 of Part 2
of the 'Assessment of Options' report.

There are at least two or three reasons I can think of offhand as to why we
might want to reconsider this:

1.)  CGJ (Combining Grapheme Joiner)--would be used in the German 
bibliographic
system to distinguish between umlauts and diaresis.

2.)  ZWS (Zero-Width Space)--for CJK bibliographic records, I don't 
know that a
stable solution has been arrived at for word separation, and this character
could provide some of the functionality that's needed to demarcate word
segmentation without introducing a visual space.

3.)  ZWNJ (Zero-Width Non-Joiner)--I believe this character may be needed,
especially for inputtin in Persian?

4.)  ZWJ (Zero-Width Joiner)--widely used in Devanagari scripts, Arabic, and
Korean.  I think it's a needed character in Tamil for correctly spelling out
the country name of Sri Lanka.

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