From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 18:10:01 EDT
How about RLM?
Jony
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> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John Hudson
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> Subject: SPAM: RE: Major Defect in Combining Classes of
> Tibetan Vowels (Hebrew)
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>
> At 04:26 AM 6/26/2003, Jony Rosenne wrote:
>
> >I don't think we need any new characters, ZERO WIDTH SPACE
> would do and
> >it requires no new semantics.
>
> ZERO WIDTH SPACE would screw up search and sort algorithms, I think,
> because it is not a control character per se and may not be
> ignored as desired.
>
> I've made some tests using Ken's ZWJ suggestion and, as
> feared, it messes
> with the glyph positioning lookups. The results varied
> slightly between MS
> RichText clients and InDesign ME, but both displayed marks
> incorrectly when
> ZWJ was inserted. I strongly suspect that this is not
> something that can
> easily be resolved in the glyph shaping model.
>
> John Hudson
>
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