Yasuo Kida （木田泰夫）

Sorry that it took a long time to respond. I am from the Japanese Language Enablement task force that @r12a mentioned (but I am not speaking for the group) and...

>Webkit once attempted converting U+005C to U+00A5 and resulted in a number of unexpected behaviors. See >https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24906 Is it specific to EUC-JP in which 0x5C is a reverse solidus?

If 0x5C is a reverse solidus with EUC-JP, then it should be converted to U+005C and nothing else. In case of Shift-JIS, from what @litherum described it appears that Shift-JIS...

I surely believe I am missing some important points, but what is the cause of this oddity? > some interested Chinese developers found an issue: there is no extra spacing...

@xfq Thank you. Got it. Do you know why `ideograph-alpha` and `ideograph-numeric` are created when "non-ideograph" might be all what you need? I can't think of scenarios where you create...

> However, there are some characters that should not have extra spacing between ideographs and them, such as: I agree. So, it seems we need 'neutral'? Do we need right/left...

According to Bin-sensei, the spacing is intended to prevent characters from being too close together, not to highlight words like parentheses do. Such 'unbalanced' situations are actually common practice in...

@macnmm as repeated in the document, the [proposal](https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24057-auto-spacing-prop.pdf) is not an effort to make a definite rule. It is intended to serve as a fallback default when no other information...

@macnmm I like the idea of using the variation selectors as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the unification of code points for characters that are used differently...

We talked about this during the JLReq TF meeting on 2024-2-27. We didn't reach a clear agreement on what should be copied; there were opinions from both sides. One concern...