- From: Behdad Esfahbod via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:19:52 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
> make the work ineligible like "بهرهوری" (nonsense) > > ... mean that the text literally makes no sense without ZWNJ? Yes. It will be pronounced completely differently, and makes no sense. > is this correct, ie. that the presence of ZWJ or ZWNJ can actually change the meaning of the text. If so, do we have an example? Totally. For example, removing the ZWNJ in all of the following (and countless other Persian words) will make them illegible: خانهها خامنهای > ...although their usual use is to control ligature formation— either preventing the formation of undesirable ligatures or encouraging the formation for desirable ones." I'd go as far as suggesting that their ligature control function is rather unused and discouraged. Their main function in Unicode, these days, is to control shaping for Arabic-like and Indic-like scripts. -- GitHub Notification of comment by behdad Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/issues/44#issuecomment-172095268 using your GitHub account
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