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Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:50:07 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
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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.
> 
> --Joel