RE: Hebrew Vav Holam

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 14:31:48 EDT

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    This argumentation applies equally well to th (which should be at least two
    Unicodes in English), gh (how many?), etc.

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Ted Hopp [mailto:ted@newslate.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:58 PM
    > To: Peter Kirk
    > Cc: Jony Rosenne; unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: Re: Hebrew Vav Holam
    >
    >
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    >
    > I think of holam male as an indivisible glyph that happens to
    > look like a vav with a dot centered above it (or above its
    > stem, if you will, but that's just how it might vary from
    > font to font). It's much the same as a lower-case 'i' not
    > being a dotless i glyph with a combining dot. (Sometimes an
    > 'i' is just an 'i'.) I wouldn't call the dot anything but a
    > dot, certainly not a holam male.
    >
    > Let's encode Hebrew, not dots. It may mean changes to what
    > SIL, UniScribe, and others are doing, but there's no free lunch here.
    >
    > Ted
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