From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 17:35:38 EDT
Ted Hopp wrote on 07/30/2003 11:43:10 AM:
> One of the key points some of us are trying to make is that vav with
kholam
> khaser is a different mark on the page than a kholam male. Different
> semantics AND different appearance, but no separate Unicode encoding.
In your earlier message, to which I responded, you spoke of two things
written with the same glyph; that sounds to me like one character. But now
you're talking about different appearances for combinations of certain
characters. That distinction does need to be representable in Unicode, so
how. It might involve an addional character, though it might also be done
some other way.
> Besides, what's all this that I keep reading about Unicode encodes
> characters, not glyphs?
True, but characters are not the same as phonemes. Your examples earlier of
qamats and shewa were very clearly phonemic differences and not character
differences.
- Peter
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