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Re: Looking for help with Hebrew vowels and cantillation marks
Biblical Hebrew mark and mkmk positioning can involve contextual GPOS lookups that move marks onto alternative anchors depending on a variety of factors: presence of other marks, position in a word, …3 -
Re: Design of the Cyrillic letter Qa /Ԛ /ԛ
I don’t recall seeing it taking any form other than that of the corresponding Latin Q/q. It and the Wa W/w are both straight borrowings from the Latin script. Any idiosyncratic forms were likely type…2 -
Re: How would you redo Unicode?
It was an entirely political compromise to satisfy the South Korean national standard body at at time when Unicode was not guaranteed to be an accepted standard in East Asia. I don’t think anyone con…1 -
Re: Academic Research on Type Design Methodology
I suspect the number of type designers able to answer your initial question, i.e. those who are also familiar with conventional UX design thinking models, is vanishingly small. I’ve no idea what ‘dou…6 -
Re: How would you redo Unicode?
Completely eliminate all decomposable diacritic characters and enforce use of letter + combining mark sequences in all languages. Fix Hebrew canonical combining class assignments. Consistently assign…2
