From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Sat Nov 15 2003 - 13:31:04 EST
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
> On 15/11/2003 09:08, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
> >... (also in Hebrew and Arabic
> >for vowel points and marks which should better be entered with a logical
> >order after the base letter, even if they produce combining sequences to
the
> >application through the WM_CHAR event).
> >
> >
> >
> I'm not sure of your point here. In both Hebrew and Arabic vowel points
> come logically after their base characters and so in the same order as
> in Unicode - with a few insignificant exceptions. The canonical order of
> points after any one base character is not the logical typing order, but
> as canonically equivalent sequences are supposed to be processed the
> same there is no need for a keyboard to ensure that it generates the
> canonical order.
He was thinking about dead keys under Windows, and assuming that a Hebrew
keyboard would use the vowels and points as dead keys. Now there is no
keyboard I know of that does this, but it is what he was thinking....
MichKa
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