Re: Display of Isolated Nonspacing Marks (was Re: Questions on ZWNBS...)

From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 15:37:28 EDT

  • Next message: Peter Kirk: "Re: Colourful scripts"

    On 07/08/2003 09:27, Kent Karlsson wrote:

    >I was so glad that you got things so nearly right for once, and then
    >you go and spoil it with:
    >
    >
    >
    >>Another similar case would be the use of a isolated nukta (which
    >>normally modifies a following base character): the sequence
    >><nukta, SPACE>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Like all other combining characters, NUKTA follows the base
    >character (the consonant) in the character stream. But I'm not
    >sure if <consonant, nukta, vowel> *should* be any different
    >from <consonant, vowel, nukta>, but maybe they should be
    >different since they are not canonically equivalent. (But...)
    >
    > /kent k
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    Please can you clarify. Is there anything unusual about positioning of
    nukta, or is it just like any other combining character? In a sequence
    <A, B, nukta, C>, where A, B and C are base characters, where is the
    nukta located relative to these three base characters?

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
    peter@qaya.org (personal)
    peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
    http://www.qaya.org/
    


    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Aug 07 2003 - 16:11:21 EDT