At 09:38 -0500 2002-01-03, John Cowan wrote:
>This leads to an interesting, if so far theoretical, Unicode question:
>how to encode abjads and abugidas that have vowel signs which are
>pronounced *before* the base consonant. Two Unicode principles,
>logical order and base-before-combining, are thus put into conflict.
>
>In (Feanorian) Tengwar itself, the reading order is actually
>language-dependent: thus "Quenya" (a Quenya word) is written
>QU-e-N-y-a (where caps are base, smalls are combining), but
>"Sindarin" (a Sindarin word) would be "S-N-i-D-R-a-N-i", if written with
>base-before-combining, or "S-i-N-D-a-R-i-N" if written with logical order,
>in which case the default grapheme clusters have to be broken up using
>complex rendering code in order to get i over N and a over R.
Did you not read my draft paper proposing the solution for this
feature of this script?
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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