Hebrew script in IDN (was Exemplar Characters) (original) (raw)

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Neil Harris wrote:

> I think you might meet some opposition to including the following in IDNs:
>
...
> ZWNJ and ZWJ (unless Indic experts can make a _very_ good case for these
> being used only in contexts where they cause _visible_ and _unambiguous_
> rendering changes)
...

Well, that rules out about half the words in Burmese! I suppose there's the
work around of replacing the virama - U+1039 U+200C ('VIRAMA' ZWNJ) - by
U+1039 U+005F ( 'VIRAMA' LOW LINE) - extremely unnatural for a language
that doesn't have spaces between words.

Richard.

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