John Hudson scripsit:

> I'm not saying I like this, but this is how it has been explained to 
> me with regard to the very clearly erroneous Hebrew mark combining classes 
> which demonstrably break Biblical Hebrew text. In this case, any existing 
> normalisation for Hebrew is already broken -- in the sense of destroying 
> Biblical Hebrew text -- but still the argument from the UTC seems to be 
> that even broken implementations -- broken because the standard is broken 
> -- must not be broken.

I don't understand how the current implementation "breaks BH text".
At worst, normalization may put various combining marks in a non-traditional
order, but all alternative orders are canonically equivalent anyway, and
no (ordinary) Unicode process should depend on any specific order.

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