Re: [hebrew] ZW(N)J usage, why D17 changed the character model (was: Holam discussion and decision at UTC)

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Sat Aug 14 2004 - 02:44:03 CDT

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    From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
    > No. There may have been an ambiguity there which you grasped at, but
    > its roots were not deep, and the text will be altered. ZWNJ and ZWJ
    > are intended for cursive scripts like Arabic and Brahmic (...)

    Hic! Wasn't ZWNJ also defined to control ligatures in non-cursive scripts
    like <f,ZWNJ,i> to instruct the renderer to NOT make a ligature between f
    and i?

    Are you saying now that sequences like <f,ZWNJ,i> and <f,ZWNJ,f> are non
    standard, without meaning, because it breaks *now* with the new change in
    Unicode rule D17 that changed the Unicode character model ?

    If so, what is the proposed ignorable control to specify to a renderer that
    it should NOT join <f,i> or <f,f> with a ligature?
    Same thing for <f,ZWJ,i> to instruct the renderer that it SHOULD better join
    the two grapheme clusters into a ligature...

    What did I miss there?



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