Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 17:18:29 EDT

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    Peter,

    This all depends on whether the UTC approves, at the upcoming meeting
    in August, the proposal to extend the use of CGJ to allow for
    inclusion within sequences of combining marks in order to prevent
    reordering of those marks.

    Of course, it could be used right now for that purpose, in the sense
    that it would have that effect, and there is nothing in TUS that would
    prevent its usage. But, as you point out, it would be far better if
    the semantics of the character were explicitly extended so that it was
    clear to people that this is a recommended usage.

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
    To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 08:12
    Subject: Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

    >
    > Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com> wrote on 07/23/2003 09:55:02
    AM:
    >
    > > Peter C, I guess that when you wrote this you had not yet seen my
    > > posting pointing out that in Unicode 4.0 developers are obliged to
    > > "implement" CGJ, quite apart from Hebrew, as a "default ignorable
    > > character",
    >
    > Unicode does not ever oblige developers to implement support for any
    given
    > character, including CGJ. But *if* a developer is going to implement
    > support for CGJ, they may not want to do so just for rendering
    purposes,
    > and they probably want to ensure that something done with Biblical
    Hebrew
    > in mind doesn't hurt what they've done for other scripts. Sometimes
    things
    > that seem to us as simple as saying "just do such-and-such" are not
    quite
    > that simple to the people actually maintaining a large code base.
    >
    >
    >
    > - Peter
    >
    >
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    > Peter Constable
    >
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    >
    >
    >
    >



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