Re: Vai character use?

At 01:47 -0800 2007-12-10, James Kass wrote:

>Should a font for Vai include U+066D - ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR?

I shouldn't think so. That's just an asterisk clone.

>These apparently older exhibits, as Peter Constable pointed out
>initially, do not use word dividers.  The Bible exhibit could have
>been left and right justified, but wasn't.  This suggests that if 
>line-breaking isn't triggered by the space character, some kind
>of dictionary look-up would be needed.

I think we should not try to worry about that any more than we worry 
about scriptio continua in Latin.
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