From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 05:50:04 EDT
On 01/08/2003 00:14, Jony Rosenne wrote:
>The characters in the block FBxx are deprecated and are not needed. The are
>equivalent to their decomposed sequence.
>
>In Hebrew, there are basically three layers: The letters, which are
>mandatory, the points, which are optional and indicate vowels and other
>pronunciation variations, and cantillation marks which are also optional and
>seldom used.
>
>It is possible to use partial pointing, marking only some of the letters.
>
>Cantillation marks are used only with the Bible and not always.
>
>Some marks are difficult to classify.
>
>It should be possible to compare and mix plain Hebrew, without any points
>and cantillation marks, with pointed or fully marked Hebrew.
>
>Thus, there is only one letter Shin, commonly unpointed and representing
>both Shin and Sin. In pointed text, the Shin and Sin points are added.
>
>Jony
>
>
>
Good point, Jony. One good reason for not using precombined characters
in Hebrew is that it makes it much easier (even as a font attribute or
something of the sort) to strip the pointing from a text or ignore all
points. In an unpointed text holam male is a vav. So that's a good
reason for it to be a vav plus something in a pointed text.
-- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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