RE: Qamats Qatan (was Majority of community important, inclusion not forcing people to do anything)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 08:20:16 CDT

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    At 10:14 +0200 2004-05-15, Jony Rosenne wrote:

    >Having Qamats Qatan as a regular Unicode character will have an
    >effect on the majority of users who do not know or care for the
    >distinction.

    No greater than they effect that the QAMATS QATAN has on them when
    they make use of one of Shlomo Tal's 1976 Seder, or Jeffrey Shiovitz'
    2001 B'kol Echad.

    >If anything, it should be some kind of glyph variant.

    It's not a glyph variant. It's a rarely-used character, attested in
    modern texts, which has its own name and shape, and which has a
    different reading from QAMATS. 

    -- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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