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Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 18:05:31 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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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.