On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:31:51 -0700, Andrew C. West wrote: > > Err, as in this particular case one vowel sign is above and the other > > one is below the stack - i.e. they don't interact spatially - you > > cannot really distinguish them. ;) > > I know that the vowel signs do not interact with each other > typographically, but what's that got to do with anything ? I'm > talking about the logical ordering of the Unicode codepoints used to > encode some Tibetan text, not the physical appearance of the glyphs > that are used to render that sequence of codepoints. > > What I'm suggesting is that although "cui" <0F45, 0F74, 0F72> and > "ciu" <0F45, 0F72, 0F74> should be rendered identically, the logical > ordering of the codepoints representing the vowels may represent > lexical differences that would be lost during the process of > normalisation.
And given that the two look identical in writing in the first palce, this lexical difference had a chance to originate exactly *where*? You are putting the cart before the horse. Also note that the original question from Chris is about things that do interact spatially. SY, Uwe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Zu Grunde kommen http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/ | Ist zu Grunde gehen
