Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 12:53:46 EDT

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    Peter Kirk wrote on 07/08/2003 04:23:59 AM:

    > Would it work to define a new character, for example, for patah-hiriq
    > which has a canonical decomposition into patah plus hiriq, or even into
    > hiriq plus patah?

    No, because any Unicode normalization form would decompose this, and then
    apply canonical reordering, thereby obviating the entire purpose for
    adding the digraph character.

    - Peter

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