On 24/07/2003 17:09, Chris Jacobs wrote:
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.
Indeed, logically though not always typographically.
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.
No problem as long as everyone agrees on this, that we encode according
to the logical association of the holam with the preceding base letter
rather than the typographical association of the holam with the alef.
The problem arises when someone doesn't realise that this is an
exception to the normal Unicode rules and tries to encode a holam which
appears above an alef according to the normal rules that a diacritic is
encoded after the base character with which it is typographically
associated.
--
Peter Kirk
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