Philippe Verdy scripsit: > Why do we need to unify Quenya and Silmaryl vowel signs? Couldn't > we encode them separately and still use the logical order in both > case, by defining a new combining mode where the Sylmaril vowel > signs combine with the next base character (like the nukta in > Brahmic scripts)?
This is also a possibility. For "Sylmaril" read "Sindarin". In practice, however, defining new architecture for a Class D script is going to be problematic, so it would still depend on font ligature tables to wind up in the right place. And that's ugly. Another issue with Tengwar is that it is a RTL script that uses a positional notation system to render its numbers (like most scripts), but renders them *least* significant digit first. The Unicode decimal digit property will not work with such numbers, unless the backing store used the standard most-significant-digit-first scheme and the digits were given the type R. -- Evolutionary psychology is the theory John Cowan that men are nothing but horn-dogs, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and that women only want them for their money. http://www.reutershealth.com --Susan McCarthy (adapted) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
