Normalizing Syriac

[Richard Wordingham]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:18:07 -0700
Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> Doug, what Richard is saying is that Normalization being predictable
> and fixed, it is up to each font (all of them) to correctly render
> all forms of normalized text (and not to make assumptions on some
> unnormalized ordering).

I don't know if he has repented, but someone proposed that fonts
should not be allowed to remove dotted circles so as, for instance, to
render normalised Tibetan contractions with vowels above and below in
the same akshara.

Richard.