Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew (was Major Defect in Combining Classes of Tibetan Vowels)

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 18:10:01 EDT

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    How about RLM?

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John Hudson
    > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:36 PM
    > To: Jony Rosenne
    > Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: SPAM: RE: Major Defect in Combining Classes of
    > Tibetan Vowels (Hebrew)
    >
    >
    > At 04:26 AM 6/26/2003, Jony Rosenne wrote:
    >
    > >I don't think we need any new characters, ZERO WIDTH SPACE
    > would do and
    > >it requires no new semantics.
    >
    > ZERO WIDTH SPACE would screw up search and sort algorithms, I think,
    > because it is not a control character per se and may not be
    > ignored as desired.
    >
    > I've made some tests using Ken's ZWJ suggestion and, as
    > feared, it messes
    > with the glyph positioning lookups. The results varied
    > slightly between MS
    > RichText clients and InDesign ME, but both displayed marks
    > incorrectly when
    > ZWJ was inserted. I strongly suspect that this is not
    > something that can
    > easily be resolved in the glyph shaping model.
    >
    > John Hudson
    >
    > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
    > Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
    >
    > If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores,
    > are labeled New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine,
    > who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint
    > Augustine and Stonehenge -- that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.
    >
    > - Umberto Eco
    >
    >
    >
    >



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