RE: Back to Hebrew -holem-waw vs waw-holem

From: Kent Karlsson (kentk@cs.chalmers.se)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 12:39:13 EDT

  • Next message: Ted Hopp: "Re: Back to Hebrew -holem-waw vs waw-holem"

    Ted Hopp wrote:
    > When I first
    > saw it, I had assumed that FB4B was supposed to be used for
    > kholam male (and that's what we use it for in our code).

    FB4B;HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH HOLAM;Lo;0;R;05D5 05B9;;;;N;;;;;

    FB4B is *canonically* equivalent to <05D5, 05B9>, so you cannot
    expect a distinction to be made when all involved characters are
    supported. Indeed, FB4B will be normalised to <05D5, 05B9>
    in all Unicode normal forms, since FB4B is composition excluded.

                    /kent k



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