From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 00:55:08 EST
I don't see any basis for saying "now generally considered misguided". Some
people don't like them. Some of the reasons given were based on a
misunderstanding.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kirk [mailto:peterkirk@qaya.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:37 AM
> To: Jony Rosenne
> Cc: 'Philippe Verdy'; Unicode
> Subject: Re: Hebrew composition model, with cantillation marks
>
>
> Currently the only such sequences in Hebrew are sequences of
> accents and
> so of significance for collation only at the lowest level; that is a
> consequence of the allocation, now generally considered misguided, of
> unique combining classes to the Hebrew vowels.
>
> Or are you in fact trying to make an argument that these unique
> combining classes are appropriate? I can see the beginnings of an
> argument for the principle of unique classes, but one that
> makes sense
> only if those classes are chosen according to the logical and
> typing order.
>
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