- From: Adil Allawi <adil@diwan.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:04:11 +0000
- To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
I am not a complete outsider :) and I would say not. Lam and Alif are definitely viewed as separate characters On 18 Jan 2012, at 08:35, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote: > On 2012/01/18 16:34, Matitiahu Allouche wrote: >> But would not a LamAlef ligature be considered a single "user-perceived >> character"? > > I'm a complete outsider, but I'd would definitely assume so. Also, any vowel marks or other additional marks would go together with the base letter. > > Regards, Martin. > >> Shalom (Regards), Mati >> Bidi Architect >> Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts >> IBM Israel >> Mobile: +972 52 2554160 >> >> >> >> >> From: John Cowan<cowan@mercury.ccil.org> >> To: "'WWW International'"<www-international@w3.org>, >> "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org"<public-i18n-bidi@w3.org> >> Date: 18/01/2012 07:59 >> Subject: Re: Shaping characters in upright orientation in vertical >> text flow >> Sent by: John Cowan<cowan@ccil.org> >> >> >> >> 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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