From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 15:31:42 CDT
At 10:09 +0200 2004-05-05, Simon Montagu wrote:
>>Proposal to add QAMATS QATAN to the BMP of the UCS
>>Michael Everson & Mark Shoulson
>
>Nice.
Ta.
> > 8a. Can any of the proposed characters be considered a presentation
>> form of an existing character or character sequence?
>> No.
>
>Is this overstating the case?
It's got a unique glyph representation, it's got its own name, and it
has its own pronunciation, so in our judgement it is not a
presentation form of QAMATS.
><flippancy>Isn't it a little strange that a "short qamats" should
>represented with a longer vertical than a regular qamats?</flippancy>
Them's the facts.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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