Re: Hebrew Vav Holam

From: Ted Hopp (ted@newslate.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 13:12:34 EDT

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    On Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:46 AM, Jim Allan wrote:
    > Peter Kirk posted:
    >
    > > ... if we are to encode separately the dot in holam male, what would
    > > you call that dot? We can't call it holam male because that is the name
    > > of the combined vav and holam.
    >
    > Would HEBREW POINT HOLAM MALE INDICATOR do?

    For reasons I posted earlier, I don't think encoding the dot is the right
    approach.

    I'd propose something that would look like this in the UCD (with 'nn' to be
    determined, but it should be in the Hebrew block):

    05nn;HEBREW VOWEL HOLAM MALE;Lo;0;R;<compat> 05D5 05B9;;;;N;;;;;

    Ted

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