On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:54:03PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Harshula <[email protected]> wrote: > > syllabic ... > > Not a bad idea at all. I support syllabic. > > But clarify -- isn't Arabic etc syllabic? I heard even sometimes > Arabic uses diacritics on consonants to indicate vowels a la abugidas.
No, Arabic script is an (impure) Abjad, and some languages even use it as a pure Alphabet like the new Uyghur Arabic alphabet. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
