From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 20:56:23 EST
"Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org> wrote:
> 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!
Please don't even think of it - acceptance of any proposal for precomposed
characters for one script would open the floodgates for similar proposals for
other scripts.
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Christopher J. Fynn
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