From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 16:02:43 EDT
On 01/08/2003 12:04, Chris Jacobs wrote:
>>How would one encode an isolated aleph with a right holam over it, when
>>explaining fine Hebrew typographical rules?
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>I think ‮ Ö¹×‬should work.
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For the benefit of those who don't have the tools to hand, the relevant
part of what Chris wrote, between "think" and "should", is encoded as
0020 202E 0020 05B9 05D0 202C i.e. <space RTL-override space holam alef
LTR-override> (and no further space to separate this from "should").
Presumably the intention is to use just <space holam alef> in already
RTL text.
The problem with this is that it necessarily starts with a space, and
therefore if it occurs at the start of a line it will be indented when
this is not intended. I suppose that this can be overcome by using a
zero width space instead. But there may also be breaking implications.
Alternatively I might suggest <ZWNJ holam alef>, if that is legal.
-- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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