While the current combining classes may cause some difficulties for Biblical scholars (and this isn't cut and dry yet - it isn't certain whether these are Unicode problem, implementation problems, missing characters or mis-identified characters), I have yet to see a claimed problem with pointed Hebrew - I mean just the points, without cantillation marks, as used for non-Biblical texts. And I don't count Microsoft's strange implementation mentioned yesterday as a Unicode problem.
Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:37 PM > To: Philippe Verdy > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Merging combining classes, was: New contribution N2676 > > > On 25/10/2003 19:00, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > >From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > .. > > >Of course, if the combining class values were really bogous, a much > >simpler way would be to deprecate some existing characters, allowing > >new applications to use the new replacement characters, and slowly > >adapt the existing documents with the replacement characters whose > >combining classes would be more language-friendly. > > > > > This has already been suggested. The problem is the old one that this > effectively deprecates all existing pointed Hebrew text, and > implementations and fonts based on the current definitions. >
