On 01/08/2002 12:36:31 PM Michael Everson wrote:
>>In tengwar.pdf, it was suggested that two fonts would be needed. There
is
>>yet one more possible solution: that language tagging determines the
>>shaping behaviour, and that for certain languages the combining marks
are
>>positioned over the following character, similar to the dead RA.
>
>No, because one can write the same language in different modes.
Are there, then, two different writing systems (based on the same script)
for the same langauge? What determines when a given language is written in
one mode or the other?
- Peter
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