Re: Hebrew Vav Holam

[Peter Kirk]

On 31/07/2003 15:02, Ted Hopp wrote:

On Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:56 PM, John Cowan wrote:
 

Unicode allows any combining character to be attached to any base
   

character
 

whatsoever.  However, putting a dagesh into a DEVANAGARI KA, or placing a
circumflex over an ARABIC MEEM, is pretty certain to cause bad rendering,
   

and
 

may screw up other text processes such as syllabication.
   


From Unicode 3.2, Chapter 8 [regarding shin and sin dot]:
"The two dots are mutually exclusive. The base letter shin can also have
dagesh, a vowel, and other diacritics. Use of the two dots with any other
base character is an error."
Sometimes, doing something that's allowed can still be an error.
 

Presumably we have to distinguish between what is a spelling etc error 
in any particular language and what is an illegal Unicode sequence. 
Probably this sentence really means more like a spelling error.

We mustn't forget that unusual combinations are sometimes meaningful. 
For example, there are languages which use Hebrew base characters with 
Arabic vowel points. We mustn't make these illegal sequences in Unicode 
without very good reason.

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Peter Kirk
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