Peter Kirk scripsit: > This approach would certainly have simplified pointed Hebrew a lot, so > much so that it could well be serious.
There are an awful lot of possibilities, and it's not clear that spinning them out a la Hangul really makes sense. > After all, Ethiopic was encoded > as a syllabary just because the vowel points happen to have become > attached to the base characters. Well, more because Ethiopic-script users think of the letters as part of a syllabary, though historically it's an abugida. The original design for Unicode Ethiopic used an alphabetic representation -- someone else can probably tell you more about the nitty-gritty of why it was rejected. > And we already have some precomposed > Hebrew syllables, FB1D, FB1F, FB2E, FB2F. But I guess it is too late for > a change now! It certainly is. -- Go, and never darken my towels again! John Cowan --Rufus T. Firefly www.ccil.org/~cowan