From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 07:44:50 EST
On 24/11/2003 03:29, Kent Karlsson wrote:
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>I wonder why Hangul would need compression over and above
>any other alphabetic script... It has already quite a lot of compression
>in the form of precomposed syllables. I think we better start a project
>for allocating precomposed "syllables" for many other scripts,
>
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> No, this was not serious ;-)
> /kent k
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This approach would certainly have simplified pointed Hebrew a lot, so
much so that it could well be serious. After all, Ethiopic was encoded
as a syllabary just because the vowel points happen to have become
attached to the base characters. And we already have some precomposed
Hebrew syllables, FB1D, FB1F, FB2E, FB2F. But I guess it is too late for
a change now!
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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