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Re: [westasianconlangs] Gedeh letters (was: Unicode)



Katav Pavel Adamek:

> > Don't you think final "mem" is a bit annoying?
> > Maybe you can try to denote mimation diacriticly,
> > like Arabic tanwiins?
>
> This is an interesting idea,
> but we will not find appropriate characters
> in iso-8859-8.

Aren't taame miqra a part of the standard? Unicodely speaking, they are a part
of Hebrew range there. Where can we learn iso-8859-# standards?

> Moreover, the mimation is an important marker
> denoting that the word is not in status constructus.

Then the presense of explicit mems is quite reasonable.

-- Yitzchaq