Effectively, if you need Arabic diacritics on top of Hebrew letters, just
use them. There will be no defect on script breaking, except in strict
security checks for identifiers where such usage is very unlikely or only
"aspirational".
You could as well use Latin/generic diacritics if needed suc
Si this assignent does not respect the default rtl property of the range.
It would not be a probleme for combining characters, but for LTR base
letters in Malayalam this is a major problem...
Induc scripts are already complexe enough without this additional
incompatibility which will act against ex
I wrote:
> Pandey's proposal suggests they
> should have General Category AL, like other Syriac letters.
AL is a bidi type, not a General Category. Still.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#AL
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Robert Wheelock wrote:
> ¡BAD NEWS! (CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT): The Unicode Consortium has assigned
> OTHER characters into the U+00860-U+008FF areas in the BMP of
> Unicode—Malayalam extended additional characters for Garshuni, and
> more additional Arabic characters.
Philippe Verdy replied:
> Si th
But are these supplemental Malayalam letters borrowed from Syriac really
RTL like in the Syriac script ? I have doubts (it would seriously impact
the Malayalam script which is LTR).
May be the letter forms are identical (or similar) but they are changed to
LTR (so the disunicification is justified
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> But are these supplemental Malayalam letters borrowed from Syriac
> really RTL like in the Syriac script ? I have doubts (it would
> seriously impact the Malayalam script which is LTR).
>
> May be the letter forms are identical (or similar) but they are
> changed to LTR (so
Le 11/05/2016 18:05, Philippe Verdy a écrit :
But are these supplemental Malayalam letters borrowed from Syriac
really RTL like in the Syriac script ? I have doubts (it would
seriously impact the Malayalam script which is LTR).
Since these character are uses to write the Malayalam *language* in
2016-05-11 18:24 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell :
> It might help to read the proposal:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15088-syriac-malayalam.pdf
Thanks for pointing this document. Initially I had incorrectly understood
that this was an extension of the Malayalam script.
But it appears now to be an
Robert, your statement seems to have an implicit assumption that the range
0860..08FF has somehow been reserved for Hebrew. That is not the case. As
Markus reference elsewhere, people can refer to the Roadmap charts to see what
is tentatively planned for a given range:
http://unicode.org/roadma
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