RE: Arabic encoding model (alas, static!)

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 10:59:16 CDT

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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
    On Behalf
    > Of John Hudson
     
     
    > > Just as it is practically impossible to display an infinite number
    of
    > > combining diacritics on Latin letters?
    >
    > One eventually runs out of space on the paper, but other than this, I
    don't see a
    > problem
    > displaying a large number of combining diacritics on Latin letters, at
    least from a font
    > perspective. The key is that one is not, in fact, applying all the
    marks to the letter,
    > but applying marks one to each other in chains.
     
    Indeed, it's impossible to display an infinite number of anything.
     
    As John says, a font can stack and stack and stack, though it's not
    clear to me who really needs that:
     
     
     
     
     
    Peter Constable
     


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