From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 12:23:49 CDT
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> Doesn't it suggest that this defines a new, currently unspecified, property
> for scripts, i.e. the preferred visible base character to use as a symbol
> for denoting an implied unknown base letter with which a combining character
> should be displayed?
It might, except conventions vary and there is usually more than one convention for any
given script. I think the dotted circle is a fine convention and would be happy to see it
used everywhere, but publishers and lexicographers etc. have their own established
conventions, so we should try to document and support them.
> But what for Hebrew, some dash or square?
SBL Font Foundation members have reported four conventions: a circle (non-dotted), a
square, a baseline stroke and a blank space. The baseline stroke is the most problematic,
because I'm not sure how this should be encoded (some people have suggested the Arabic
tatweel character).
> It's true that it will remain other possibilities, but specifying them
> somewhere would help font designers implementing at least those for correct
> rendering.
A note in the individual script section of the Unicode book would certainly be welcome.
John Hudson
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