Re: Major Defect in Combining Classes of Tibetan Vowels

[Andrew C. West]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:41:27 -0700 (PDT), Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> 
> Peter asked:
> 
> > How can things that are visually indistinguishable be lexically different? 
> 
> chat (en)
> chat (fr)

And if Unicode reordered vowels in front of consonants, then we wouldn't be able
to distinguish :

chat (en)
chat (fr)
acht (de)

Andrew