RE: Questions on ZWNBS - for line initial holam plus alef

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 18:54:52 EDT

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    Suggested but not accepted.

    I am inherently suspicious when pressure is being exerted to decide complex
    and difficult questions in a hurry.

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk
    > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:43 PM
    > To: Philippe Verdy
    > Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: Re: Questions on ZWNBS - for line initial holam plus alef
    >
    >
    > On 13/08/2003 11:09, Philippe Verdy wrote:
    >
    > >... For this reason, defective
    > >combining sequences (combining characters without a leading base
    > >character) should be forbidden (invalid for XML).
    > >
    > >
    > If there is even the remotest possibility of this happening,
    > we need to
    > know quickly! Defective combining sequences are legal Unicode and are
    > now being suggested for use in Hebrew e.g. for holam male. But such a
    > definition would be useless if XML restricts the texts it can
    > represent
    > to a subset of Unicode excluding such sequences.
    >
    >
    > --
    > Peter Kirk
    > peter@qaya.org (personal)
    > peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
    > http://www.qaya.org/
    >
    >
    >
    >

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