From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 14:51:14 CST
While the current combining classes may cause some difficulties for Biblical
scholars (and this isn't cut and dry yet - it isn't certain whether these
are Unicode problem, implementation problems, missing characters or
mis-identified characters), I have yet to see a claimed problem with pointed
Hebrew - I mean just the points, without cantillation marks, as used for
non-Biblical texts. And I don't count Microsoft's strange implementation
mentioned yesterday as a Unicode problem.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:37 PM
> To: Philippe Verdy
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: Merging combining classes, was: New contribution N2676
>
>
> On 25/10/2003 19:00, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
> >From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
> >
> >
> >
..
>
> >Of course, if the combining class values were really bogous, a much
> >simpler way would be to deprecate some existing characters, allowing
> >new applications to use the new replacement characters, and slowly
> >adapt the existing documents with the replacement characters whose
> >combining classes would be more language-friendly.
> >
> >
> This has already been suggested. The problem is the old one that this
> effectively deprecates all existing pointed Hebrew text, and
> implementations and fonts based on the current definitions.
>
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