From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 18:05:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46f61279728be486793db35e4097e3dc@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c6e0490f9e7da28ba8273f8f2eb072b@quanstro.net>
for a description check the link below. pages 8 and 9 have
some of the detail.
http://behdad.org/download/Publications/persiancomputing/a007.pdf
> i don't know hebrew very well, but are you confusing glyphs with characters?
>
> for example arabic has three letter forms: initial, final and medial.
> (there is a different shape for the the same letter at the beginning, middle
> and end of the word.)
>
> so in arabic, a good renderer would need three glyphs for each codepoint.
>
> - erik
>
> On Fri May 19 17:55:50 CDT 2006, joelcsalomon@gmail.com wrote:
>> Take Hebrew, for instance: 27 letters (including the 5 final forms) +
>> a few alternate forms, 15 vowel marks, 25+ cantillation marks --
>> that's more than 10,000 combinations right there.
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2006-05-19 14:36 rog
2006-05-19 15:11 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 16:16 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 21:03 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 21:26 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 21:21 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 21:45 ` jmk
2006-05-19 21:57 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-19 21:51 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:04 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-05-19 22:16 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:34 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-19 22:35 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 23:40 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-19 23:43 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 0:12 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 0:13 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 0:43 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 0:44 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 4:13 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-21 18:10 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-21 18:12 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-25 0:23 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-27 19:41 ` Dan Cross
2006-05-27 20:15 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-05-28 1:49 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-05-20 0:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-20 0:51 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 1:43 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 1:38 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 1:59 ` Federico Benavento
2006-05-25 0:24 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-20 3:59 ` geoff
2006-05-20 10:56 ` Lucio De Re
2006-05-20 11:04 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-20 0:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-21 18:11 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 22:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-19 22:36 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 23:28 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-05-19 22:54 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-19 22:50 ` quanstro
2006-05-20 1:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2006-05-21 17:52 ` Joel Salomon
2006-05-22 4:04 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-19 22:29 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-19 22:22 ` quanstro
2006-05-19 22:45 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-05-22 22:55 erik quanstrom
2006-05-23 4:58 ` Jack Johnson
2006-05-23 10:07 erik quanstrom
2006-05-23 14:24 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-05-23 17:07 ` plan9
2006-05-23 17:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-05-23 18:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-05-23 20:09 ` Harri Haataja
2006-05-25 0:31 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-05-25 2:34 ` Andy Newman
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