From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 02:42:12 CST
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:11:40 -0800 (PST), Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>
> But how you analyze the phonology and morphology of Arabic (or any
> other language which happens to use the Arabic script for writing)
> is basically irrelevant to the character encoding. The character
> encoding encodes the visible units of the writing system (the
> graphemes and occasionally subgraphemic pieces, allographs, and
> such).
Unless the writing system is Mongolian, in which some visibly identical units
are encoded separately for each different pronunciation that they take (e.g. the
letters O [1823] and U [1824], which are visibly indistinguishable in all
positions) ... but I suspect that this is a case where the user community's
perception of what is a character won over character encoding theory.
Andrew
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