for a description check the link below. pages 8 and 9 have some of the detail.
http://behdad.org/download/Publications/persiancomputing/a007.pdf > i don't know hebrew very well, but are you confusing glyphs with characters? > > for example arabic has three letter forms: initial, final and medial. > (there is a different shape for the the same letter at the beginning, middle > and end of the word.) > > so in arabic, a good renderer would need three glyphs for each codepoint. > > - erik > > On Fri May 19 17:55:50 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Take Hebrew, for instance: 27 letters (including the 5 final forms) + >> a few alternate forms, 15 vowel marks, 25+ cantillation marks -- >> that's more than 10,000 combinations right there.
