From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Apr 25 2004 - 18:12:25 EDT
> From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk@qaya.org>
>
> As for the new variant selectors being in the SSP, is this actually
> necessary, or could they be in the Hebrew block, space permitting?
> After all, if we are talking about VSs with the fixed combining classes
> of Hebrew points, they are useful only with Hebrew script.
While they could be added to the Hebrew block, they would
not benefit from the decision in Unicode 3.2 to mark
certain unassigned code points as having the Default Ignorable
property. As such, they would not be ignored by any
implementation conformant to version of Unicode prior to
the version in which they were added. They certainly aren't
General Punctuation or Specials which are the only two blocks
on the BMP that contain unassigned Default Ignorable
characters. Not making use of that ignorability weakens the
case for Hebrew Variant Selectors, especially since font
support for new vowel marks is likely to be added sooner
and more easily that support for new ignorable characters.
If HVS's are ever adopted, they clearly would belong on the
SSP in a new one row Hebrew Variant Selectors block chosen
from the 233 rows of available default ignorable characters.
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