RE: bidi on Windows and Mac

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 05:39:46 EST


Ar 22:49 -0800 1999-12-17, scríobh Jonathan Rosenne:
>1. All of these exist in the FBxx block.
>
>2. They are not shaped. They are composed.
>
>3. To clarify, none of the Hebrew ligatures are compulsory, they are
>discretionary.

The use of these is compulsory in Yiddish. I don't understand why there
appears to be some longstanding battle between Israeli Standards with a
desire for encoding purity and no interest in Yiddish at all, and the
actual Yiddish users, who keep informing us that their needs are not being
met.

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