From: Ted Hopp (ted@newslate.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 18:09:23 EDT
On Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:18 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Is not U+FB35 HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH DAGESH a shuruq?
Only graphically. Different pronunciation, different names, different
functions grammatically. Old typewriters used to have only a single key for
the lower case letter 'l' and the digit '1'. (Change your font if you can't
see the difference.) Sometimes, Unicode is an old typewriter.
> > It seems wrong to be calling a base character a HEBREW MARK. It also
seems a
> > little odd to be calling a Hebrew vowel a HEBREW LETTER when every other
> > HEBREW LETTER is a consonant. But if that's what convention requires....
>
> Holam male would be more like a LETTER, since it is not a combining mark.
Yes, if it has to be a choice between MARK or LETTER, I'd prefer LETTER. I
was hoping for something else, though, like VOWEL or VOWEL SIGN, since
that's really what it is, not what it's "more like".
Ted
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