At 17:07 -0400 2004-09-09, Dean Snyder wrote:
The vowel points in Hebrew are CHARACTERS, they are NOT the logical equivalent to Latin accents, even though they may seem to superficially resemble them to non-Hebraists. They are not sub-characters - they are real characters that just happen to be written above, in, and under the consonants.
Good heavens. This is nonsense. Or at least it is a use of the word "character" which is unrelated to the use which the UTC and WG2 makes of it.
They are, for example, actually read sequentially, just like one reads Latin consonants and vowels.
A lot like Tengwar, really.
But Unicode strapped these Hebrew vowel points with the combining mark property
They are combining marks.
and here we are, stuck with the wrong-headed, sub-character, combining mark "legacy" with all its concomitant problems.
Um. Wrong.
I'm way too busy right now to devote any time to this,
Good. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
