The final forms in Hebrew are a rule with many exceptions. Unless you use a
Hebrew spell checker, you should just leave them as they were entered.
In this respect Hebrew is different from Arabic.
Jony
At 12:22 25/05/99 -0700, Chookij Vanatham wrote:
>
>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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