On 07/12/2004 07:52, Jony Rosenne wrote:
Jony, I can agree with you on this, for arbitrary combinations of combining marks. It may not always be entirely clear how these should be rendered....
Consequently, there is and cannot be anything wrong with Unicode (at least in this respect) and it does support "ANY sequence of Hebrew vowels and consonants".
I do maintain that is some cases the typographic process would require out of band assistance in determining the precise presentation desired, and that this falls outside the scope of plain text and Unicode.
But it does seem that there is a long-standing (thousand year) tradition on how to render certain "non-standard" situations such as an isolated vowel point at the start of a word (represented in Unicode by NBSP + vowel point) and two vowel points with a single base character. It can be hoped that a good typographic process would (in the absence of out of band assistance telling it to do something different) follow this long-standing tradition.
In other words: How you choose to represent Qere/Ketiv forms etc is up to you. But typographic processes should render NBSP + vowel point as a vowel point below or above a space, and two vowel points with a single base character should be squeezed around that base character. This is normal Unicode-compliant typographical practice for combining marks. It also allows for one way of representing Qere/Ketiv forms, which you are not obliged to use but is likely (although not guaranteed) to give sensible results.
Do we really need to continue this discussion?
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