How about RLM? Jony
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hudson > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:36 PM > To: Jony Rosenne > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SPAM: RE: Major Defect in Combining Classes of > Tibetan Vowels (Hebrew) > > > At 04:26 AM 6/26/2003, Jony Rosenne wrote: > > >I don't think we need any new characters, ZERO WIDTH SPACE > would do and > >it requires no new semantics. > > ZERO WIDTH SPACE would screw up search and sort algorithms, I think, > because it is not a control character per se and may not be > ignored as desired. > > I've made some tests using Ken's ZWJ suggestion and, as > feared, it messes > with the glyph positioning lookups. The results varied > slightly between MS > RichText clients and InDesign ME, but both displayed marks > incorrectly when > ZWJ was inserted. I strongly suspect that this is not > something that can > easily be resolved in the glyph shaping model. > > John Hudson > > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com > Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, > are labeled New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine, > who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint > Augustine and Stonehenge -- that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism. > > - Umberto Eco > > > >
