This argumentation applies equally well to th (which should be at least two Unicodes in English), gh (how many?), etc.
Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Hopp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:58 PM > To: Peter Kirk > Cc: Jony Rosenne; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Hebrew Vav Holam > > ... > > I think of holam male as an indivisible glyph that happens to > look like a vav with a dot centered above it (or above its > stem, if you will, but that's just how it might vary from > font to font). It's much the same as a lower-case 'i' not > being a dotless i glyph with a combining dot. (Sometimes an > 'i' is just an 'i'.) I wouldn't call the dot anything but a > dot, certainly not a holam male. > > Let's encode Hebrew, not dots. It may mean changes to what > SIL, UniScribe, and others are doing, but there's no free lunch here. > > Ted > > Ted Hopp, Ph.D. > ZigZag, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1-301-990-7453 > > newSLATE is your personal learning workspace > ...on the web at http://www.newSLATE.com/ > > > >
