Jony Rosenne wrote:
One of the problems in this context is the phrase "original meaning". What we have is a juxtaposition of two words, which is indicated by writing the letters of one with the vowels of the other. In many cases this does not cause much of a problem, because the vowels fit the letters, but sometimes they do not. Except for the most frequent cases, there normally is a note in the margin with the alternate letters - I hope everyone agrees that notes in the margin are not plain text.
Jony, what do you think plain text is? Why should the arrangement of text on a page as a marginal note be considered any differently from text anywhere else *in its encoding*? Are you suggesting that Unicode is only relevant to ... what? totally unformatted text in a text editor?
John Hudson
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