RE: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Sat Jul 17 2004 - 22:25:06 CDT

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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 2:46 AM
    > To: Peter Kirk; Unicode List
    > Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com
    > Subject: Re: Folding algorithm and canonical equivalence
    >
    >
    > Thank you for reviewing this.
    >
    > DiacriticFolding (unlike AccentFolding) is selective about
    > which combining
    > marks it removes for which base character. I wonder whether
    > that's truly
    > intended, or whether it could be replaced by a combination of
    >
    > AccentFolding
    > OtherDiacriticFolding
    >
    > where AccentFolding removes *all* nonspacing marks following
    > Latin, Greek
    > or Cyrillic letters and we would remove from DiacriticFolding
    > all cases
    > that are already handled by accent folding.
    >
    > That still doesn't take care of Hebrew, so we would need to
    > decide how to
    > handle that. Perhaps you would like to put forth a proposal
    > as to what
    > accents or diacritics should be folded for Hebrew, and in
    > what context. Is
    > it just Dagesh?

    All.

    In Hebrew it is quite common to omit them all.

    Jony



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