Re: Help with Greek special casing

From: Mark Davis (markdavis34@home.com)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2001 - 10:53:41 EST


Yes, that was filed as a bug, and will be fixed the next time we update the
case mappings. We are right in the middle of the Unicode 3.1 release, so
that will be coming sometime later.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Nicholas" <nicholas@uci.edu>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 00:11
Subject: RE: Help with Greek special casing

> At 09:56 -0800 2001-03-01, Carl W. Brown wrote:
>
> >It looks like the Unicode TR 21 special casing rules for the Greek final
> >sigma are not quite right.
> >
> >The final sigma in modern Greek should only be used at the end of a word
> >including the case where separate words are joined with hard hyphens. If
it
> >is followed by a character such as a combining mark or soft hyphen you
must
> >continue scanning to see what follows. If it is followed a letter then
it
> >is not final.
> >
> >A simpler test might be it see if a letter or a spacing character or hard
> >hyphen is found first. If it is a letter then it is not a final sigma.
>
> Which is what we do at the TLG with Beta code (whose S is both medial or
> final); in fact, Beta code conflates hard hyphens and dashes anyway,
> considering the (em) dash, without space, punctuation.
>
> If the Unicode rules are wrong, well, I hope those that can fix them are
> tuned in. :-)
>
> Nick Nicholas, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. nicholas@uci.edu
> www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis
> "All the nations also under his dominion were filled with joy and
> inexpressible gladness at not being even for a moment deprived of the
> benefits of a well ordered government."
> --- Eusebius of Caesaria on the accession of Constantine I.
>
>



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