RE: Exemplar Characters

From: JR (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 09:13:14 CST

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
    > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:55 PM
    > To: Unicode Discussion
    > Subject: RE: Exemplar Characters
    >
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    > At 15:36 +0200 2005-11-16, JR wrote:
    >
    > > > >The exemplar character set for Hebrew should be limited to
    > > > that of ISO 8859-8, i.e. Alef to Tav plus ' and ".
    > > >
    > >> Not apostrophe and quotation mark, I take it.
    > >
    > >Yes to both. They are commonly used in abbreviations and
    > acronyms, similar
    > >to the period in e.g. or i.e..
    >
    > Surely Geresh and Gershayim.

    They should have been, but COMMONLY apostrophe and quotation mark are used,
    and most systems do not yet support Geresh and Gershayim.

    Jony

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    > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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