Re: Vai character use?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2007 - 04:20:39 CST

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At 01:47 -0800 2007-12-10, James Kass wrote:

>Should a font for Vai include U+066D - ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR?

I shouldn't think so. That's just an asterisk clone.

>These apparently older exhibits, as Peter Constable pointed out
>initially, do not use word dividers. The Bible exhibit could have
>been left and right justified, but wasn't. This suggests that if
>line-breaking isn't triggered by the space character, some kind
>of dictionary look-up would be needed.

I think we should not try to worry about that any more than we worry
about scriptio continua in Latin.

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