Well, I understood that ZWJ/ZWNJ followed by a combining mark gives a defective combining sequence, which is not illegal but whose rendering is undefined - and which Uniscribe tends to render with a dotted circle. Is that correct? But then I was advised that it was permissible to use such a sequence for word initial holam male, as long as the font knows to expect it.This brings us back to the earlier quesion of whether it is legitimate to use ZWJ or ZWNJ between combining marks
It sure better be. This is done in Khmer for controlling register shift combinations for exception words. I have seen nothing in Unicode that states that the ZWJ/ZWNJ can only be used with base type characters.
Paul
I'm copying this to the main Unicode list as its relevance is wider than Hebrew.
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