From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 21:20:00 CDT
Jony Rosenne wrote:
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
>>[mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag
>>Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 10:53 AM
>>To: John Cowan
>>Cc: Peter Kirk; Unicode List; jony Rosenne
>>Subject: Re: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence
>>
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>>Jony is arguing to extend AccentFolding to Hebrew (fold to
>>unpointed). His
>>suggestion is to fold *all* combining marks used with Hebrew
>>in that case.
>>I want to double check that he really means all combining
>>marks in the
>>Hebrew block, or just some of them.
>>
>>
>>
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>I did mean all. All points and cantillation marks in Hebrew are optional.
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>
I can't think of any combining mark in the Hebrew block that should be
left intact when performing such a folding operation. Perhaps a human
printer making text unpointed might leave one or two in place in
ambiguous cases, but nothing that a computer could know
Jony's right: when it's down to brass tacks in Hebrew, it's consonants
and whitespace (and punctuation, I guess).
~mark
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