----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:40 PM Subject: Re: Hebrew hataf vowels (was: About CGJ)
> On 24/07/2003 12:18, John Hudson wrote: > > > At 11:46 AM 7/24/2003, Peter Kirk wrote: > > > >> One of the specific issues he brought up was this one: how do you > >> distinguish the holam-waw vowel combination from the consonant waw > >> followed by the vowel holam?... > > > > > > These are display issues, not encoding issues,... > > Not entirely. First I need to know what sequence of Unicode characters I > should use to encode holam-waw and aleph with right holam. Garbage in, > garbage out. Then I need to be sure that your sophisticated rendering > system actually makes the required distinctions and is not confused by > any rare cases. Aleph with right holam is not a plain text issue, and thusly not an unicode issue. A right holam on an aleph belongs between the aleph and the preceding consonant. As far as plain text goes it can be displayed: 1. above the aleph, to the right. 2. between the aleph and a preceding consonant above a space. 3. above the preceding consonant, to the left. If you explicitly want 1. then you are talking about rich text.
