From: Karljürgen Feuerherm (cuneiform@rogers.com)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 21:31:41 EDT
I'm rather new to the process, but this issue is of interest to me (so
please bear with me wrt questions whose answers may be obvious to everyone
else)
> >For example, the alleged problem of the vocalization order of
> >the Masoretes might be amenable to a much less drastic
> >solution. People could consider, for example, representation
> >of the required sequence:
> >
> > <lamed, qamets, hiriq, final mem>
> >
> >as:
> >
> > <lamed, qamets, ZWJ, hiriq, final mem>
> >
> >and then map <qamets, ZWJ, hiriq> to the required glyph
> >to get the hiriq to display to the left (and
> >partly under the following final mem).
I was going to suggest something very similar, a ZW-pseudo-consonant of some
kind, which would force each vowel to be associated with one consonant. (But
create one when one exists already? Perhaps because:
> There are a few problems with this scenario. One is that control
characters
> are unreliable agents in glyph-level processing.
if somehow ZWJ is special and another consonant would avoid this.)
>Most applications do not
> paint control character glyphs, which means that they do not appear in
I'm not sure what 'paint' means here. Whether something is visible or not is
not necessarily the same as whether it exists in an encoded string or not.
> glyph strings so cannot used in glyph substitution lookups.
>This seems to
> be a pretty much universal assumption about control characters.
I am very surprised by this. Isn't it part of the function (or at least,
pragmatic use) of ZWJ that applications and/or smart fonts can treat strings
of C1-C2 or C1-ZWJ-C2 as equivalent or not (whether for rendering or other
purposes), provided that they know the legitimate combinations which may
occur?
In which case,
>Arguably, there are implementation options
> that would overcome this problem, but they are complicated and the present
> assumption seems pretty universal.
isn't the problem not with the Standard (assuming the above or similar
solution) but with the applications (Uniscribe or other)? (Of course I
realize that this would do little for the end-user--a problem is still a
problem. However, one wishes to address it in the correct arena.)
General question: when does canonical reordering take place? At input time,
at rendering time, at another time? (Perhaps there are more accurate ways to
put this; but I assume the general gist of the question is clear.)
Thanks
K
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