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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?
Date	Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:59 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:54:06 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> And Arabic script was adopted by a whole lot of different languages
> which had sounds that Arabic did not. So they had to make up their own
> letters, most commonly by adding different numbers of dots to the
> existing shapes.
>
Arabic Letters also have different glyphs depending on whether they are 
at the start, middle or end of a word or an isolated letter, though six 
letters only have isolated and end-of-word representations. Unicode 
supports this with a code point for each representation of each letter.


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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 10:26 -0800
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-05 12:54 +1300
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-02-05 13:09 +0000
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 18:10 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 15:29 -0800

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