At 10:14 +0200 2004-05-15, Jony Rosenne wrote:
Having Qamats Qatan as a regular Unicode character will have an effect on the majority of users who do not know or care for the distinction.
No greater than they effect that the QAMATS QATAN has on them when they make use of one of Shlomo Tal's 1976 Seder, or Jeffrey Shiovitz' 2001 B'kol Echad.
If anything, it should be some kind of glyph variant.
It's not a glyph variant. It's a rarely-used character, attested in modern texts, which has its own name and shape, and which has a different reading from QAMATS.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
