L2/15-081
Date/Time: Sun Feb 15 21:11:21 CST 2015
Name: Roozbeh Pournader
Report Type: Error Report
Opt Subject: Syriac appears to be missing various combining characters
In communication with Kamal Mansour, I found that various diacritical marks are used in modern Syriac script, but the Unicode standard does not specify how they should be represented in text.
For example, there are apparently diacritics that appear like tilde above and below, a macron-like character, ring above and ring below marks, etc.
These are the links Kamal passed to me that mention some of these diacritical marks: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2305/documents/syrkey.pdf (see, e.g., page 7) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2305/documents/syriac-numerals.pdf
http://www.eki.ee/knab/lat/kblsyr2.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_alpabet#Letter_alterations
http://shelf3d.com/i/Syriac%20script