Re: Hebrew Vav Holam

From: Karljürgen Feuerherm (cuneiform@rogers.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 08:51:27 EDT

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    The suggestion is certainly practical. Unfortunately acquiring new
    vocabulary may involve a fair amount of time expenditure on the part of some
    of us who regularly use alternate (known) terminology. I would happily
    comply if I could but cannot afford to at the moment. Sorry.

    K
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Jony Rosenne" <rosennej@qsm.co.il>
    To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:46 AM
    Subject: RE: Hebrew Vav Holam

    > For the benefit of archiving and searching, may I suggest that we all use
    > the Unicode names of the characters we are discussing.
    >
    > I.e.: Vav, rather than waw, Holam, rather than holem or kholam.
    >
    > Jony
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Rick McGowan
    > > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:25 AM
    > > To: unicode@unicode.org
    > > Subject: Re: Hebrew Vav Holam
    > >
    > >
    > > If I might stick my nose in here where I'm not too familiar... This
    > > discussion reminds me of "Left Holam" or "Holam Left", a
    > > phrase which has
    > > percolated up to my conscious brain this afternoon... So I
    > > thought I'd look
    > > that up in the Unicode mail archives...
    > >
    > > There was a discussion of this issue in May and June of 1999.
    > > See for
    > > example this note (choosing a not quite random one from the
    > > batch), from
    > > Arno Schmitt:
    > >
    > > http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML01
    > 5/0401.html
    >
    > I would suggest that the people involved here also look at the archives
    > and read the entire previous thread(s) from 1999. Or maybe you already
    > have.
    >
    > Rick
    >
    >
    >
    >



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