Re: Hebrew script in IDN (was Exemplar Characters)

From: Neil Harris (neil@tonal.clara.co.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 19 2005 - 09:33:47 CST

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    Richard Wordingham wrote:
    > Neil Harris wrote:
    >
    >> I think you might meet some opposition to including the following in
    >> IDNs:
    >>
    > ...
    >> ZWNJ and ZWJ (unless Indic experts can make a _very_ good case for
    >> these being used only in contexts where they cause _visible_ and
    >> _unambiguous_ rendering changes)
    > ...
    >
    > Well, that rules out about half the words in Burmese! I suppose
    > there's the work around of replacing the virama - U+1039 U+200C
    > ('VIRAMA' ZWNJ) - by U+1039 U+005F ( 'VIRAMA' LOW LINE) -
    > extremely unnatural for a language that doesn't have spaces between
    > words.
    >
    > Richard.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    Oh, and it looks like ZWJ is needed, too:

    http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html#19

    -- Neil



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