Re: Shaping characters in upright orientation in vertical text flow

On 01/18/2012 02:34 AM, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:
> But would not a LamAlef ligature be considered a single "user-perceived
> character"?

Not in Persian at least.

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> From:        John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
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> Date:        18/01/2012 07:59
> Subject:        Re: Shaping characters in upright orientation in vertical text
> flow
> Sent by:        John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
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> fantasai scripsit:
> 
>> "grapheme cluster" is a technical term meant to encompass, roughly-speaking,
>> a "user-perceived character" (to quote UAX29). While Arabic letters may
>> cursively join, a joined sequence is most definitely not considered a single
>> "user-perceived character".
> 
> Fair enough.
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