From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 17:04:02 EDT
On 25/07/2003 13:03, Rick McGowan wrote:
>The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review
>and comment. Details are on the following web page:
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> http://www.unicode.org/review/
>
>Review periods for the new item closes on August 18, 2003.
>
>Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
>Briefly, the new issue is:
>
> Issue #12 Terminal Punctuation Characters
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>
>
>
I was surprised to see U+05C3 # HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ listed as
neither Terminal_Punctuation nor Sentence_Terminal. The main use of this
character is to indicate the end of a verse in the Hebrew Bible
(although it is missing from the end of a few verses); I am not aware of
any other use. It is certainly used only at the end of a word, similarly
to colon, semicolon etc, and so should surely be classed as
Terminal_Punctuation. The same is true of U+05C0 # HEBREW PUNCTUATION
PASEQ. And from what Jony has just written, U+05BE # HEBREW PUNCTUATION
MAQAF should also be treated as a word divider and so classed as
Terminal_Punctuation.
Also, within the Hebrew Bible text which does not use full stop or any
other sentence terminating punctuation, the only real analogue of a
sentence is a verse. So, at least in the context of the Hebrew Bible, it
would be sensible to class U+05C3 (but not U+05C0 or U+05BE) also as
Sentence_Terminal.
Maybe someone on this list can see a good reason for not giving these
properties to these characters. Unless someone can explain one to me, I
will post this response formally to http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html.
-- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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