Re: Merging combining classes, was: New contribution N2676

[Mark E. Shoulson]

I remembered there was a lot of discussion about this case, which is why 
I brought it up.  Can someone remind me why ZWNBSP would be Bad for 
this?  Wrong RTL coding? (possibly, but it's weak, isn't it) Wrongly 
indicates a word-break? (this is probably a problem.)

~mark

John Hudson wrote:

At 04:37 PM 10/26/2003, Jony Rosenne wrote:

There is nothing unusual about this. The only problem is that while the
Hiriq is between the Lamed and the Mem and belongs to the missing 
Yod, some
people insist that they see two vowels under the Lamed.


No, the problem is not the positioning of the hiriq, which is easy to 
control, but the re-ordering of the hiriq and patah due to the fact 
that they are in separate combining classes, with the hiriq having a 
lower number. This is 'a claimed problem', and as should be clear from 
much previous discussion, far from everyone agrees with your 
suggestion that the missing Yod be encoded in some way. So this is a 
live issue, and not one that can simply be ignored because you've made 
up your mind what you think the solution should be.