5 Hebrew Consonances Shaping

From: Chookij Vanatham (chookij.vanatham@eng.sun.com)
Date: Tue May 25 1999 - 15:28:59 EDT

Hello Folk,

I'm looking for what the behavior should be for these 5 hebrew consonances.
There are 5 hebrew consonances when they come at the end of the words, their
shape will be changed.

        KAF: U+05DB changed to U+05DA
        MEM: U+05DE changed to U+05DD
        NUN: U+05E0 changed to U+05DF
        PE : U+05E4 changed to U+05E3
      TSADI: U+05E6 changed to U+05E5

These ten codepoints, you can input from the keyboard as well.
Here are my questions.

1. Whenever I hit the keyboard to input these 5 codepoints
(U+05DB, U+05DE, U+05E0, U+05E4, U+05E6) at the end of the words,
should I always change these 5 codepoints to the other respective
codepoints which are the final forms (U+05DA, U+05DD, U+05DF, U+05E3, U+05E5)
of these 5 consonances ?

2. What if I read the hebrew text files which have these 5 codepoints
(U+05DB, U+05DE, U+05E0, U+05E4, U+05E6) at the end of the words,
should I always change them to the final forms ?

I've never seen any word processor in hebrew. May be those who know
can give me the answer.

Thanks a lot.

Chookij V.

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