Re: IPA Null Consonant

From: <Peter_Constable@xxxxxxx>
> Philippe Verdy wrote on 05/27/2003 11:50:39 AM:
> 
> > Don't speak about overwriting sequences using Backspace in Unicode!
> 
> I wasn't; I was talking about typewriters, though the comparable thing was
> done in the era of Wordstar and daisy wheel / dot matrix printers.

I spoke about the same thing for the old version of the ISO646-FR set which 
standardized it (such standard has been officially removed from registries and 
even forbidden now in France for text processing, and now the ISO-646-FR set 
has only 1 official variant which remains, where BACKSPACE has no dedicated 
meaning for text processing as an artificial way to create combining 
characters, as it does not work with most text display systems).

This old standard using Backspace specially to create overlay sequences was 
removed when the works on Videotex and Teletext used SS2 and SS3 control 
characters to explicly create and encode combining characters that could be 
encoded in the G1 set, and transported on 7bit systemsusing a standardized 
encoding form which complies to other more general standards like ISO2022.


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