Re: Urgent call for clarification of Armenian numbering rules

It seems that the patiw being spacing rather than combining is an
error in Unicode.  :(

Search for "patiw" here:
http://www.evertype.com/standards/hy/n1395tech.html
"This is a combining character."

Hrant Papazian writes:
"The mistake has persisted probably because
nobody uses the patiw, because nobody puts
a -usable- patiw in a font, because pre-OpenType it
was impossible to render such a floating mark.
Not to mention that the patiw is a very archaic
character that always looks old-fashioned."

Regards,

T

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Kent Karlsson
<kent.karlsson14@comhem.se> wrote:
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> Den 2009-01-29 21.35, skrev "Thomas Phinney" <thomas.phinney@gmail.com>:
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>> More from Hrant Papazian on Armenuan numbering:
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>>> 3. is the glyph that indicates values over 9,999 a circumflex or a line
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>> My educated guess is something like U+055F
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> 055F;ARMENIAN ABBREVIATION MARK;Po;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
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> This is a spacing punctuation character, not a mark above.
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>    /kent k
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