John Cowan wrote on 06/25/2003 03:15:21 PM: > 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.
No, John, there are distinctions in Biblical Hebrew related to ordering, but due to the canonical combining classes these distinctions are all neutralized under canonical ordering / normalization. The alternate orders are canonically equivalent, but should not have been so. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
