>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.
This is not a correct understanding. Uniscribe does not insert dotted circles based on the presence of ZWJ/ZWNJ.
Indeed. However, perhaps you can explain why
alef hatafsegol ZWNJ meteg
produces
alef hatafsegol dotted-circle meteg
in Word 2002. Is this simply a Word bug/feature? The same sequence renders correctly in Wordpad and Notepad, so I know that Uniscribe is not to blame. I'd really like to understand why this happens.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The sight of James Cox from the BBC's World at One,
interviewing Robin Oakley, CNN's man in Europe,
surrounded by a scrum of furiously scribbling print
journalists will stand for some time as the apogee of
media cannibalism.
- Emma Brockes, at the EU summit
