I don't see any basis for saying "now generally considered misguided". Some people don't like them. Some of the reasons given were based on a misunderstanding.
Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:37 AM > To: Jony Rosenne > Cc: 'Philippe Verdy'; Unicode > Subject: Re: Hebrew composition model, with cantillation marks > > > Currently the only such sequences in Hebrew are sequences of > accents and > so of significance for collation only at the lowest level; that is a > consequence of the allocation, now generally considered misguided, of > unique combining classes to the Hebrew vowels. > > Or are you in fact trying to make an argument that these unique > combining classes are appropriate? I can see the beginnings of an > argument for the principle of unique classes, but one that > makes sense > only if those classes are chosen according to the logical and > typing order. >
