From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 13:45:03 EST
On 11/11/2002 11:12:55 AM Michael Everson wrote:
>Are there not minimal pairs in Hebrew where the final form would be
>expected but isn't used for some reason? There certainly is for final
>sigma, which is why it is a good thing it is encoded separately.
I agree that there are valid reasons for encoding these as distinct
characters. When we did our implementations for Biblical Greek and Hebrew
several years ago, we weren't aware of those reasons; for the texts we were
concerned with it seemed quite appropriate to assume that there is only one
sigma character. My objection wasn't to there being two sigmas but to the
the claim that "nobody" considers them to be representable by a single
character.
- Peter
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