Unicode discussion platform, Mongolian script

[David Carlisle]

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David

On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 09:25, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk>
wrote:

> Fellow TeXxies — is there a platform on which questions relating to
> Unicode may be asked ?
> I ask because I have just noticed the following :
>
> *Grapheme Cluster <http://unicode.org/glossary/#grapheme_cluster>*. The
> text between grapheme cluster boundaries as specified by Unicode Standard
> Annex #29, "Unicode Text Segmentation."
> <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/> (See definition D60 in Section
> 3.6, Combination <http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/ch03.pdf#G30602>.)
> A grapheme cluster represents a horizontally segmentable unit of text
>
>
> and am wondering why the word "horizontally" is used.  Can there not be
> grapheme clusters
> in languages such as Mongolian, written vertically, top-down, L-to-R ?
>
>
>
>
> *Philip Taylor -------- *
>
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