Suggested but not accepted. I am inherently suspicious when pressure is being exerted to decide complex and difficult questions in a hurry.
Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:43 PM > To: Philippe Verdy > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Questions on ZWNBS - for line initial holam plus alef > > > On 13/08/2003 11:09, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > >... For this reason, defective > >combining sequences (combining characters without a leading base > >character) should be forbidden (invalid for XML). > > > > > If there is even the remotest possibility of this happening, > we need to > know quickly! Defective combining sequences are legal Unicode and are > now being suggested for use in Hebrew e.g. for holam male. But such a > definition would be useless if XML restricts the texts it can > represent > to a subset of Unicode excluding such sequences. > > > -- > Peter Kirk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) > http://www.qaya.org/ > > > >
