Re: Questions on ZWNBS - for line initial holam plus alef

2003-08-12 Thread Michael Everson
At 10:58 -0700 2003-08-11, Peter Kirk wrote: On 11/08/2003 06:59, Jon Hanna wrote: There are only two theoretical problems that I can see here, the first is that a whitespace character other than space gets converted to space by attribute value normalisation, and that this changes the meaning of

Roadmap---Mandaic, Early Aramaic, Samaritan

2003-08-12 Thread ekeown
Elaine Keown TEMPORARILY in Madison Wisconsin Hello: I am posting this to both regular Unicode and the new Hebrew list. Please reply off-list or to the Hebrew list if you want me to see what you wrote immediately. I am responding at great length to the Roadmap proposals for the

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

2003-08-12 Thread Peter Kirk
On 05/08/2003 17:13, Kenneth Whistler wrote: Peter Kirk said: From what Ken says, it sounds like it will be wrong from whenever Unicode 4.0 is officially issued Actually Unicode 4.0 was officially issued on April 17, 2003. What we are waiting on now is for the publication of the text

Re: Conflicting principles

2003-08-12 Thread John Jenkins
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 3:53 PM, Peter Kirk wrote: This answer presupposes that there is a well-defined concept of which base character a combining mark belongs to. That is not always true. The particukar combining mark which precipitated the debate may be situated above the gap

Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic

2003-08-12 Thread Michael Everson
At 18:03 -0400 2003-08-07, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote: My knowledge of Aramaic script is a little scanty, but my understanding is more or less the same as Peter's. Which leads me to suggest that encoding Aramaic separately would be a bit like encoding Old Akkadian (Cuneiform) separately from

RE: Creating fonts for Akan language

2003-08-12 Thread Kyekyeku.Opoku-Pong
Hello, Thank you all for your answers to my questions on the above topic. They will give me the lead to begin working on my little project. I will get back to you if I get stuck along the way. kyekyeku -Original Message- From: ext Peter Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,