RE: bidi on Windows and Mac

From: Jonathan Rosenne (rosenne@qsm.co.il)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 01:49:29 EST


1. All of these exist in the FBxx block.

2. They are not shaped. They are composed.

3. To clarify, none of the Hebrew ligatures are compulsory, they are
discretionary.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark H. David [mailto:mhd@world.std.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 3:32 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: bidi on Windows and Mac
>
>
> > forms for Arabic for now, but then run into problems with other
> > languages later if we continue to try to use Unicode as a glyph
> > encoding. Actually, could you help me by giving specific examples of
> > glyphs that are *not* in Unicode? E.g. compulsory/discretionary
> > ligatures, shaped glyphs.
>
> The Yiddish language requires 11 combinations. They are shown
> on this page: http://www.uyip.org/combinations.html
>
> Please don't go this route.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mark David
> Moderator, UYIP (Understanding Yiddish Information Processing)
> http://www.uyip.org
>
>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:56 EDT