At 04:12 PM 2/9/2004, Kenneth Whistler wrote:Thank you, Ken and Asmus. I think I will take this back to the Unicode Hebrew list and see if we can all agree on a convention for using ZWJ, ZWNJ etc with meteg, now that the way is open for their use. And we may look again at some other issues which are more than just spelling conventions. Then we can formally propose something to the UTC, and the UTC can decide whether this is approprite for inclusion in the standard.
That leaves item A. And it is mostly a matter of determining what is the best mechanism for getting people to know how they should "spell" the metegs with the minimum of confusion. Putting something in the Unicode Standard might be appropriate, or there might be better venues to document the conventions.
I'm of the opinion that conventions that use characters of general category Cf are best documented in the standard. Otherwise, a consistent treatment of such characters across implementations depends too much on context (e.g. use of a particular font).
"Fine typography" issues for other characters, incl. combining are a different matter. These will legitimately differ even among uses of the same character (viz. math and text handling of accents, for example).
A./
One question here which is more of principle. Last year there was a long discussion of the appropriate method of inhibiting undesirable canonical reordering e.g. between meteg and vowels but potentially in other scripts. The mechanism agreed on, I think formally by the UTC, was to use CGJ. But one reason for using CGJ was that ZWJ and ZWNJ were not then available in this position. Now that they are available, would it be better to use them rather than CGJ?
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