On 19/01/2004 12:08, Doug Ewell wrote:
Dean Snyder <dean dot snyder at jhu dot edu> wrote:
But now that I know that it is already part of the model for some
scripts in Unicode and is being considered for further use, as in Han
and Hebrew,
Is it being considered for Han and Hebrew? I hadn't heard that before,
and I wonder if that wouldn't break the existing model for those
scripts.
I mentioned to Dean that this had been considered for Hebrew, but it was
only briefly. For example, it was suggested for the apparently free
variation between the different positions of meteg. But it proved
inappropriate because VSs have the same problem as ZWNJ and ZWJ that
they cannot occur within combining sequences. This restriction on ZWNJ
and ZWJ is now likely to be lifted, it seems, and they were always more
appropriate than VSs for this particular distinction. And so I think
this idea is dead. VSs have also been suggested for indicating certain
variant Hebrew glyphs, but this doesn't seem a good idea.
--
Peter Kirk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
http://www.qaya.org/
