CLDR: Bad exemplar chars for Hebrew

From: Jony Rosenne (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 09:45:25 CST

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    For Hebrew, points are never considered as part of the alphabet. Nor are
    they part of the minimum set whatever the definition.

    05c4 is not even a point.

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Keutgen, Walter
    > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:13 PM
    > To: Donald Z. Osborn; Simon Montagu
    > Cc: Unicode Mailing List
    > Subject: RE: CLDR: Bad exemplar chars for some locales
    >
    >
    > Donald,
    >
    > almost correct. See the CLDR instructions:
    >
    > http://www.unicode.org/cldr/wiki?SurveyToolHelp/characters.
    > PLEASE FOLLOW THE HYPERLINK [Exemplar Characters].
    >
    > Please pay also attention to "tought as the alphabet" i.e.
    > one may not exclude letters not used in genuine words of a
    > language that uses Latin script e.g. "k" to be kept in "it".
    > Probably one can derive a similar rule for other scripts.
    >
    > Best regards
    >
    > Walter Keutgen
    > International Engineering Centre
    > Unisys Belgium nv-sa
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    > -----Original Message-----
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    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Donald Z. Osborn
    > Sent: Donnerstag, den 6. April 2006 11:58
    > To: Simon Montagu
    > Cc: Unicode Mailing List
    > Subject: Re: CLDR: Bad exemplar chars for some locales
    >
    > What is the general rule in this kind of situation? Another case is
    > languages in
    > Latin transcription that can have tone marks, but generally don't use
    > them, and
    > others that generally do but not necessarily, etc. The case is a bit
    > complicated where precomposed accented characters can be used
    > for ASCII base
    > characters but don't exist for extended characters.
    >
    > It almost seems like there ought to be an "tone and vowel mark"
    > category between
    > the standard set and the auxiliary set. But then again maybe
    > (1) the standard
    > set does not have to do with frequency of usage (so points in
    > Hebrew, accents
    > in Bambara etc. should be there if they are part of the
    > transcription system)
    > and (2) I should look at the good old Effing Manual to clarify my
    > understanding
    > of "auxiliary" (which I take to mean characters "not used" in the
    > language that
    > might be for borrowed and transcribed foreign terms).
    >
    > Don Osborn
    > Bisharat.net
    > PanAfrican Localisation Project
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