From: Maxim Iorsh (iorsh@math.technion.ac.il)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 03:10:09 EST
> This would be the kind of text that might get suggested to
> the Unicode
> Editorial committee:
>
> <<section 8.1>>
> U+FB20 HEBREW LETTER ALTERNATIVE AYIN is an alternative form
> of Ayin that
> replaces the basic form U+05E2 HEBREW LETTER AYIN when there is a
> diacritical mark below it. The basic form of Ayin has a
> descender which can
> interfere with a mark below the letter. U+FB20 is encoded for
> compatibility
> with implementations that substitute the alternative form in
> the character
> data, as opposed to doing a glyph substitution at rendering
> time, which is
> the preferred method.
I think this is OK. By the way, I can provide a font with an emphasized
difference between basic and alt form.
Maxim.
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