From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 13:27:49 CDT
Given that a few people regularly seem to have a hard time sending their
responses to the appropriate list, I wonder if a rule could be set up to
reject messages that are coming from those people and that also have
"[Hebrew]" in the subject field? That might get their attention. :-)
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Philippe Verdy
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:57 AM
> To: Peter Kirk
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: [hebrew] Re: Holam background document
>
> From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
> > > These characters are also ignored except with respect to specific,
> > > defined processes; for example, ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER is ignored
in
> > > collation.
> >
> > And the example is precisely the case which concerns me most. The
> > preference for HOLAM is that the distinction between the two should
be
> > "ignored except with respect to specific, defined processes", and
the
> > easiest way to do that is to distinguish between them with a default
> > ignorable character, like ZWNJ or a variation selector.
>
> Another good point Peter: ZWNJ will not be suitable to make
distinctions
> between holam male and vav haluma, as this distinction is lost in
every
> collation... How can we accept that loss of semantic during collation,
when
> this should be clearly tailorable?
>
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