i don't know hebrew very well, but are you confusing glyphs with characters?
for example arabic has three letter forms: initial, final and medial. (there is a different shape for the the same letter at the beginning, middle and end of the word.) so in arabic, a good renderer would need three glyphs for each codepoint. - erik On Fri May 19 17:55:50 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Take Hebrew, for instance: 27 letters (including the 5 final forms) + > a few alternate forms, 15 vowel marks, 25+ cantillation marks -- > that's more than 10,000 combinations right there. > > --Joel
