Re: Hebrew collation, was: Merging combining classes

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 06:36:16 CST


On 28/10/2003 03:47, Philippe Verdy wrote:

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>I don't know all the details of Hebrew points, so it would help if you
>could list exhaustively to which category these points belong:
>
>1) consonnant modifiers: dagesh, rahe, sin dot, shin dot
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>
Yes

>>05BC ; [.0000.00BD.0002.05BC] # HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ
>>05BF ; [.0000.00C0.0002.05BF] # HEBREW POINT RAFE
>>05C1 ; [.0000.00C1.0002.05C1] # HEBREW POINT SHIN DOT
>>05C2 ; [.0000.00C2.0002.05C2] # HEBREW POINT SIN DOT
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>2) vowels?
>3) vowel modifiers/accents?
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>>05B0 ; [.0000.0000.00B2.05B0] # HEBREW POINT SHEVA
>>05B1 ; [.0000.0000.00B3.05B1] # HEBREW POINT HATAF SEGOL
>>05B2 ; [.0000.0000.00B4.05B2] # HEBREW POINT HATAF PATAH
>>05B3 ; [.0000.0000.00B5.05B3] # HEBREW POINT HATAF QAMATS
>>05B4 ; [.0000.0000.00B6.05B4] # HEBREW POINT HIRIQ
>>05B5 ; [.0000.0000.00B7.05B5] # HEBREW POINT TSERE
>>05B6 ; [.0000.0000.00B8.05B6] # HEBREW POINT SEGOL
>>05B7 ; [.0000.0000.00B9.05B7] # HEBREW POINT PATAH
>>05B8 ; [.0000.0000.00BA.05B8] # HEBREW POINT QAMATS
>>05B9 ; [.0000.0000.00BB.05B9] # HEBREW POINT HOLAM
>>05BB ; [.0000.0000.00BC.05BB] # HEBREW POINT QUBUTS
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>Here you assign vowels and vowel modifiers the same collation level. Isn't
>it a problem?
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No, these are all vowels, none of them are vowel modifiers. The vowel
modifiers or accents are basically 05BD meteg and 0591-05AE, which are
already defined as fourth level collation. Meteg is the only one of
these which interferes with the canonical ordering.

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